Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl ad, which had lost both dignity and raiment in its evolution from the patrician '205 to the leggy '403 (see cut), shows a sharp decline in popularity. > Color photography, once thought to spell the doom of hand-painted illustration, runs neck & neck with its rival. >The humorous cartoon ad ("Quick. Henry, the Flit!", etc.), which reached a peak in the middle '303, is on the way down...
American League. For the sixth successive year, the New York Yankees are favorites to win the American League pennant. From the high-powered machine that finished 17 games ahead of their nearest rival last year, the Yankees have so far lost only one cog: First Baseman Johnny Sturm. To replace him, Manager Joe McCarthy has two candidates: Oldtimer Buddy Hassett (recently purchased from the poor Boston Braves) and a promising rookie named Eddie Levy. Among a half-dozen other Yankee farmhands considered to have enough savvy for the Big Team this year are Pitchers Johnny Lindell and Hank Borowy...
...Cardinals have less power but a better all-round team. Last year, thanks to their fertile farm system, the Cards came up with three rookie pitchers (Ernie White, Howard Krist, Howard Pollet) who proved to be poison to rival clubs. This year, Manager Billy Southworth has up his sleeve a pair of sluggers who look just as dangerous...
...Allies were hastily preparing their own rival program. Most of the thousands of warplanes exported by Britain last year had been sent to Libya and the Middle East. The British were pouring huge funds for defense projects into Syria, Palestine and Iraq...
...professor watches his rival, who comes "from a long line of married people," warming over old times with his wife, and jealously observes that a woman should not go on living with a man when she dances better with another man. This philosophical approach trips and stumbles into paganism when he takes to liquor while his wife and Joe go off to the game together. In a hilarious drunk scene he resolves to hold his mate as a tiger does-by fighting for her. He does hold her-not with tigerish might, but by reading the trustee-forbidden Vanzetti letter...