Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
...subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...
...Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...
...single source of news for the American press," the court found. To get around antitrust laws, the A.P. incorporated itself under a New York state law which applies to hunting and fishing clubs. And, like such exclusive clubs, the A.P. practices the right of blackball. Once blackballed by a rival, an applicant's only recourse is to throw himself on the mercy of the A.P. membership, which is all too willing to logroll ("You vote against my rival, I'll vote against yours"). Once in the A.P., if the applicant has any exclusive news services...
Presumably, a new publisher could do without A.P., and take the United Press or International News Service instead. But U.P. and I.N.S. also make costly demands: in 26 U.S. cities, a new publisher would have to pay off heavily to his established rival-no matter which one of the three big wire services he bought. Said Justice Hugo Black (who wrote the majority decision): "The net effect is seriously to limit the opportunity of any new paper to enter these cities . . . and to frustrate the free enterprise system which it was the purpose of the Sherman Act to protect...