Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth Meeting. At Biscayne one night last week, the two speediest dogs in Florida-Beachcomber and Dry Lake-did their noble best. It was the ninth meeting of the two rivals in a month-something like a continuing race between Armed and Assault. Beachcomber whistled out of the No. 2 hole, got to the turn in front and stayed there. His time for the 5/16 mile was 31⅔ if, only a fifth of a second slower than the track record and the best time of the current season. It was Beachcomber's fifth victory over his rival...
...also gets plenty of pampering. So does his arch-rival Dry Lake, whose master, a well-to-do coal mine operator named Lucilius Moorer Kirkpatrick, reportedly bought...
Toronto has brawn, getting by on what one rival manager calls "bull strength and ignorance." Montreal has Maurice Richard (TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...
...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...
...veteran character actor that he is, gets the freest of reins in this innocuous little film--and he overacts his way magnificently through the role of an irascible old Scottish sheepherder, soaked in Scotch and fighting a losing battle with a heather-clogged accent. Plot concerns a couple of rival dogs, the annual sheepherding trials, and dastardly murders (of sheep) by one of the aforementioned canines...