Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious Princess Baba announced an unfulfilled scheme of buying a rival kingdom to Sarawak and calling it Babaland...
...this alliance with Rockefeller broke the ore market from $4 to $2.50 a ton. Other mine owners, fearing a squeeze, tried to sell out at any price. When finally U. S. Steel was formed, the Corporation, fearing that Rockefeller might use his ore as a base for a rival steel corporation, bought him out for $79,000,000. John D., running his original $29,000,000 profit up another $50,000,000 exclaimed: "I was astonished that the steel makers had not seen the necessity of controlling their ore supplies...
Another Terrible Infant of the Dominions also acted up. South Africa's former Prime Minister and present Opposition Leader General J. B. M. Hertzog, who plugs for independence from Britain and who is an even bitterer rival of Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts than Mitchell Hepburn is of Mackenzie King, introduced a motion before the Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week...
...Asia all nations, including our own, must share responsibility. This admission of common guilt as regards the origins of the wars must not blind us to the incalculable issues at stake in the outcome of these wars. . . . An interpretation of the present conflicts as 'merely a clash of rival imperialisms' can spring only from ignorance or moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success...
...lack of confidence. Ray Stone lost a fairly close decision to his Soldier Boy opponent. Harvard had won the meet before Duncan Longcope's final match. so he was not in the best psychological position to win a close fight. After a hard match against a stronger and heavier rival, he dropped a decision to the Cadets...