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Word: rivalled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile rumblings from the rank and file of Cliffedwellers were said to be increasing hourly. Observers noted, at the same time, that rival female academics were similarly curtailed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Dean Quashes 'Degenerated' Good-Nights, Moves Adieux Outside | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Dutch way: "It wonders [mystifies] me." In the city's only public high school, a dozen drum majorettes strutted up & down the gym. The 40-piece school band blared away. Allentown's basketball team, unconquered in three years, was in step as usual: down went rival Weatherly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champs by Crum | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champs by Crum | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Angeles, Hearst's Examiner assigned twelve reporters to a sex murder, glamorously christened it the Black Dahlia case. On the rival Daily News, an anonymous city-room hand posted a catalogue of helpful cliches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hard-Pressed, Grim-Faced | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...third quarter of his race, Dodds fell two seconds short of his planned time, but still nobody was near him. His old rival, Leslie MacMitchell, had won a 4:17.2 mile the night before and was obviously overtired. Dodds broke the tape 35 yards in front of the nearest man, New York A. C.'s Tommy Quinn. Dodds's time - 4:09.1 - was the fastest indoor mile Boston had ever seen. The crowd cheered lustily for five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preacher's Comeback | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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