Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis and Blanchard's individual fire power combined in one backfield adds NT to Blaik's T. With a smart quarterback mixing his one-two punches, Mister Inside and Mister Outside are guaranteed to drive a rival defense nuts. Even conservative Red Blaik says: "I doubt if any team ever had two such players in the backfield at the same time...
...university, which now has an endowment of about $4,000,000 and annual $1,000,000 state appropriation, has an even wealthier neighbor down the street: Duke. It is characteristic of Frank Graham that he has worked hard at sharing facilities and instruction with his rival. During the war he was criticized for spending too much time away from the campus as a member of the War Labor Board. When trustees complained, the student paper polled the campus, reported 95% of the students and faculty behind Dr. Frank...
...their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...
...Managing Board has to recoup its set-back it is hard to discover. They still have an oar in officially, and sources associated with the "outs" say the situation is far from settled and predict a renewal of the fight this fall, with a possibility of two rival Specs...
...Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind...