Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days of intensive practice between the M.I.T., and Brown basketball games plus the added incentive of an Eastern Intercollegiate League rival made Bill Barclay's varsity five look like a new team as the Crimson out-fluessed Brown 63 to 46 on the Indoor Athletic Building court Saturday evening. It was the second Crimson win in as many starts this season...
Taft so far had kept his views of rival Republicans to himself. He was busy working over Harry Truman...
...Rival coaches had little difficulty in choosing two guards, for Eliot's Bob Adams and Captain Greg Nazarian of the Deacons showed clear superiority throughout the seson. Nazarian provided the toughest sector of the Kirkland frontier, while Adams' repeated breakthroughs to block kicks and recover fumbles kept enemy backs on edge. Rounding out the "dream team" is Pat Gilpatrick, sturdy Deacon center, whose line-backing stood out for the third place squad...
Meanwhile Rival Pridi Banomyong's man, Premier Thamrong-Nawasawat, failed to steer Siam off the postwar economic rocks. "Pridi Banomyong has soft ears," said the Siamese; self-seekers seemed able to talk him into anything. The cost of living doubled. Official corruption was almost universal...
Billy Rose might have used the same excuse for dishing out this chestnut as if it were fresh-roasted. If he had been reading rival Columnist Leonard Lyons last February he would have known better. In one week, six people had offered twists of the same yarn to Lennie-eleven years after he had first "naively printed" the tale. And only a week before Billy printed it, Lyons had again tagged it a legend...