Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apartment, the Society's old-maid president, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, said: "[The Picasso show] is an exhibition of crazy stuff. People who went to the show flocked to join the Society for Sanity in Art." She affirmed the Society's answer to Picasso's challenge: a rival exhibition demonstrating sane art, to be held in Vose Galleries. Examination of the Society for Sanity in Art's catalogue disclosed one disconcerting fact: all the sane artists represented in its show were dead...
...veteran-studded eight from Eliot House found little difficulty in walking off with the House championship yesterday afternoon. Outdistancing their nearest rival, the Kirkland Deacons, by three full lengths, the Merrymen won for themselves the right to oppose Yale's Berkeley College eight Saturday at Derby...
Some fans attributed the Yankee breakdown to Sparkplug Joe Di Maggio's absence from the lineup for three weeks because of an injured knee. Others said rival managers, discovering that the Yankees were allergic to left-handed pitchers, fed them nothing but southpaws (lefties were responsible for nine of their 14 defeats). Still others suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind...
...match to the Yale Freshmen in New Haven on Saturday afternoon. Yale took four out of the six singles, but Harvard won two of three doubles. Gould and Nicholl took the only singles points for Harvard, and Jenkins in the number one spot succumbed to this Eliot rival only after a prolonged battle...
...years ago. Although Lightbody entered the event an underdog owing to the fact that Ed Burrowes of Princeton had previously been timed in under 1:52, the Crimson leader began to draw away at the 440-yard mark and finished a good 25 yards ahead of his nearest rival...