Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody can be quite sure how all the great splashing began, but the Burmese have an explanation which seems to satisfy them. At the beginning of time, they say, Thi-gya-min made a bet with a rival god-who was so angry that he literally sizzled. The loser was to have his head chopped off. Thi-gya-min won, but his rival's severed head might not be defiled by touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since...
...week's end, Columnist Walter Winchell sneered in Hearst's rival Mirror that the brawl was just "a neat press [agents'] stunt." The News, which didn't care, gratefully prepared to send $10 to the nightclubber who had tipped...
Monro has been connected with Harvard since his graduation in 1935 except for wartime service in the Navy. As an undergraduate, he was Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON and President of the Journal, a rival newspaper which resulted from an internal policy split in the regular "breakfast table daily...
...same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...