Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other occasions Wood has lost both the U.S. and British Opens in playoffs. This time his 284 was three strokes better than the score of his nearest rival, Denny Shute, and five strokes better than that of third-place Ben Hogan. The next best score turned in by a Texan was the 295 of Lloyd Mangrum. Mighty Byron Nelson...
When (and if) Kalunite goes into production, Alcoa's once-firm grip on the U.S. aluminum supply will be further weakened at two points: the Hall process will have its first real rival, and another corporation will have joined Reynolds Metals and the U.S. Government in competing with Alcoa. This must come as a blow to 0PM Economist Grenville Ross Holden, who has fought aluminum expansion plans (unless they were Alcoa's) all along the line. Young Holden, who left Eastman Kodak to handle aluminum and magnesium matters for OPM, admitted to the Truman Committee last month (TIME...
...would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is the epic resistance of Britain. . . . The other is the magnificent defense of China. . . ." In effect, the President signed and sealed a new alliance. To the totalitarian Axis of Rome, Berlin and Tokyo, he opposed a rival, democratic Axis, reaching from London across the Atlantic to Washington, across the Pacific to Chungking...
...Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
Loren G. MacKinney '42 and Thomas Matters '43 led their respective classes in the Student Council elections, the results of which were released last night. MacKinney piled up 261 of the 462 votes cast to defeat his nearest rival, Eugene D. Keith, by 44 votes. Matters had things even more his own way, enjoying a 73-vote lead over second place John W. Sullivan...