Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People. One typical measure of this love is the superior attitude toward the rival city of Leningrad (or St. Petersburg, as many oldsters still call it), which Peter the Great built. Disaster cannot kill this feeling for Moscow, and exile only enhances it. Last week, a Muscovite who has not seen his birthplace in 30 years reminisced...
Humanized Mechanization. The only U.S. artist to rival Peale's mastery of still life was an Irishman named William M. Harnett. As sickly as Peale, Harnett was also dirt-poor to start with, took to painting still lifes because he could not afford live models. He made his dead models-rabbits, books, fruit, paper money-so convincing that guards were once posted to protect his canvases from clutching gallerygoers...
...later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
Norris' time over the approximately four-mile long course was 1 hour 25 minutes 10 seconds, three minutes better than his nearest rival. It is better by 11 seconds than the time posted by Jimmy McLane over the same course in 1945. This race, incidentally, lifted the Andover boy wonder into international prominence two years...
Last week, in a sentimental editorial, the Times bade its swallowed rival farewell: "There was no feeling of exultation . . . rather the feeling was one of sorrow for the loss of a companion in the ranks of public service." But the Times's Publisher Elmer E. Todd, 74, minced no words: "There just isn't enough room for two afternoon papers in a city the size [pop. 475>332] of Seattle...