Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...
...University of Southern California: the 63rd annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet; for the ninth time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...
Longest and liveliest part of the story tells of Glenn's shattering experiences as a Red trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades...
...million dollar order for new gull-winged flying boats for the Navy, 215 of the 167 bombers for France. Altogether his backlog of orders came to $39,500,000 worth of planes. With the new contract, however, the biggest plane manufacturing backlog, $48,000,000, glows in Rival Douglas' fireplace...
Winning only one first place, but copping four out of seven of the second positions and more than their share of thirds and fourths, Lowell House ran up a 15 point lead over its nearest rival, Leverett, in the field events division of the inter-House track meet yesterday afternoon, and appears likely to repeat its triumph of last year...