Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Derailments frequently make thousands late for work. Equipment is so run-down that passengers can hardly remember when the Central do Brasil has run on time. Last fortnight, commuting cariocas rioted on a rival suburban train, burned three Toonerville-type coaches...
...artistic odds might be all with Ballet Theater, but canny Sol Hurok was not worrying. The name Hurok in combination with Metropolitan Opera House is still box office. Hurok's old-fashioned Ballet Russe was drawing crowds twice as big as its rival...
...afraid that its New York outlet, WABC, might be a free ad for its rival, American Broadcasting Co., changed the station's call to WCBS (effective Nov. 1). Last week, NBC was at it, too. Said the network: FCC had okayed changing WEAF, New York, to WNBC. It was a good bet that to most listeners these changes in call letters made not a kilocycle's difference...
...Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood's two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound (which they started) with some none-too-skillful pictures, this splashy, expert piece of entertainment was made by a rival studio...
Jesus' real mission, explains Agabus-Graves, was to "destroy the power of the Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus...