Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Artist Christy had finished his mighty acreage of oil painting it was propped up in the Capitol's rotunda for 16 months while a legislative commission cast about for a likely place to hang it. Likeliest places in the Capitol were already occupied by such rival historical scenes as The Battle of Chapultepec and Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. One Capitol picture, however, Carpenter's dignified First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, failed to fill its wall space. So the commission decided to cart it off to the old Supreme Court chamber and replace...
Last year's meeting between the Crimson and the Blue was a vital one, for the two were tied at 39 victories apiece. By winning Harvard went ahead for the first time in the memory of any undergraduate, and at the same time Tom Bolles toppled his Washington rival Ed Leader below the .500 mark with a record of nine and ten to show for his 19 years at Yale. Bolles' particular record stands at a dead heat with Syracuse, one loss to Navy, and two to Cornell during his tenure as Dean of Newell boat house, and Leader...
Another obstacle lying in the way is the advertising program of the H.A.A. News; certain firms have contracts stipulating that no rival concerns may be allowed to sell or advertise their products at the games...
...purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...
Obvious to amateur Freudians is the fact that Gino had an Oedipus complex, was in love with his mother. He was prudish toward girls, shied away from sex experience. But, contrary to Freud's definition, he did not consider his father a rival-in fact he identified himself with him as the head of the family, and had the same feelings as a jealous husband...