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Word: rivalled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeyes at Wildwood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...West Coast entrants, Washington and California, were not what they once were in the days when they monopolized Poughkeepsie. Navy's shrewd Coach Buck Walsh saw only one likely rival; he told his crew: "Watch Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anchors Aweigh | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Following the example of the major league teams, they will schedule series of two, or three, or more games in one week between rival clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Form First Intramural Baseball Club for Summer Play | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

...jail cells, sullen, bushy-browed Beulah and George ("Bud") Gollum, 21, an ex-Navy radioman, peppered each other with love letters full of double and triple entendres. Hearst's Examiner got hold of them, ran off 200 copies of a dummy final edition without them to lull the rival Times, then spread the letters over two pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down Adela's Alley | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas-rush spirit by directing customers to rival stores, whenever Macy's merchandise is not exactly what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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