Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the rival Cambridge institutions met for the first time May 4, the Crimson shell outdistanced M.I.T. by 16 seconds on the Charles, as it trailed Cornell to take second place in the four way regatta. But last week on home waters of the Annapolis middles, M.I.T.'s showing was slightly better than that of Bollesmen, as the Engineers placed eighth and the Bollesmen last...
Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
Since the first unveiling of CBS discoveries in the field of color (TIME, Feb. 11), rival networks and laboratories had voiced many a skeptical humph. According to them, color was a good five years off, and the best that television could do now was black & white. A fortnight ago, Allen B. Du Mont, pioneer television promoter, warned: ". . . color television for the home is ... still in the far distant future.. . . The informed, sincere scientist is not convinced by dramatically staged and carefully controlled laboratory demonstrations...
They found it was a little too early to tell. But Foxworth, fresh out of the Navy, and fighting in the 175-lb. light heavyweight class that ex-Golden Glover Joe Louis once dominated, looked good. For two rounds, against Eastern Champ Robert Isler, Foxworth studied his rival's tricky southpaw stance, saved his ammunition. Then, in Round 3, he fired two hard rights. The first one rocked his opponent; the second knocked him out. It was Sailor Bob's 76th consecutive...
B.S.A.A., with the old British fire in its pink Socialist eye, talked about 24-hour service from London to rival Pan American's projected one-day Constellation schedule from New York to Buenos Aires. Last week, B.S.A.A.'s glamor boy and general manager, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, was reported souping up a Mosquito in London to show that it could be done...