Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard had won his championship, over 25 other young spell-wells from as many cities, by romping through sacrilegious after his closest rival had stumbled on acquiesced. The reporter thought Richard might be interested to know that one paper, publishing this fact, had misspelled sacrilegious in its own headline. But Richard just smiled, "like a man who had been there before...
Harvey jumped into the lead of the League base stealers by virtue of his three free bases last Saturday. His closest rival for the annual Princeton probably face again this Saturday. A. A. cup is Tiger Captain Bill MacCoy, who with five steals still has two contests to make up his deficit...
...Brooklyn Dodgers got the razzberry last week. Reason: they were six full games ahead of their nearest rival in the National League. Spokesman for the hecklers was mustachioed Dan Parker, New York Daily Mirror sports columnist, Dodger fan and leading U.S. exponent of Brooklynese. Wrote...
...Kaminsky, the stubby trumpet player who is right in his element in front of a small band, and semi-legendary Peewee Russell, who painfully extorted a half-hour's worth of intoxicated notes from his ram-shackle clarinet, after playing most of the afternoon at the Ken's rival session. Peewee hadn't been too exciting at the Ken, I understand--something about the other men not playing in the right key. But with his colleague Kaminsky to kid him along he gave of his knocked-out best...
...Camps Lee and Eustis has been read with great interest by the members of the Honolulu Community Theater who have been touring the camps on Oahu with the same melodramatic masterpiece ever since the war started. However, we have come to the conclusion that the experiences of this rival company must be pretty small potatoes compared with ours...