Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years each stared across the street at his rival's window signs, his rival's customers, the cash-register figures. Finally they decided they hated each other. On the sly, cunning Mr. Petropulos leased Mr. Diakandru's building. On the quiet, crafty Mr. Diakandru bought Mr. Petropulos' building. Grinning slyly, Mr. Petropulos served an eviction notice. Grinning right back, Mr. Diakandru gave his foe an eviction notice...
...down the first concert-performance rights for the Western Hemisphere. Then with quiet triumph he announced that his student Berkshire Music Center Orchestra would play the Seventh Symphony on August 14. But the truth of the matter was that he had been nosed out by his 75-year-old rival, Arturo Toscanini, the old fire-&-ice Maestro himself. Toscanini would conduct the Seventh on July 19, a month before Koussevitzky...
...Hitler made a contract with the demon of the air, but the contract ran out before the job was done and the demon has taken on an engagement with a rival firm...
Before the votes were cast, Tobruk had fallen. Independent Driberg defeated his Governmental rival...
Suitor. In St. Albans, Vt., 80-year-old Nelson Coons got a suspended jail sentence for setting fire to a shed which he thought contained his sweetheart and a 75-year-old rival...