Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell House was out in front, $40 ahead of its nearest rival, Leverett. Adams, along with these two, was the only other House to exceed $65 in total sales. Pledges in most Houses ran very close to the sales figures, indicating that those who had pledged were fulfilling their promises...
...public wrath got two quick results. After one day, the strike was called off. And at week's end C.I.O. President Philip Murray, who has put off making peace with the A.F. of L., got off an urgent letter to Rival William Green, offering to try-really try-for an inter-federation agreement...
...Russia and China. Itagaki as War Minister, excusing his protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their memories and their...
White Cloud, a 60-ft. cutter owned by Detroit's Charles E. Sorensen: the 35th annual Chicago-to-Mackinac yacht race, world's longest fresh-water race; in her first try; outsailing 24 other Class A cruising entries and finishing eleven hours ahead of her nearest rival. A recent refugee from East Coast racing, White Cloud made the 331 miles (steamer route) in 38 hr. 14 min. 5 sec., fastest time since 1911. Absent from the helm was Owner Sorensen, Ford's production chief, too busy to take three days off even for his favorite pastime...
...Tauchnitz was merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series. He controlled his multilateral book business through Publishing Holding Co., with main offices in Paris, branches in London and Leipzig...