Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor, McClure was a trial, but a stimulating one. A meteoric traveler, he returned to the office with despairing laments that the magazine was dying (its circulation climbed from 8,000 to 750,000 in twelve years), that the staff could not understand him. Reading the files of a rival publication, he exclaimed, "Not a Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens...
...members of the Apted constabulary watched their rival "dick" from across the street, slinking down Mount Auburn, flattening themselves against Adams Honee...
Some of the most flagrant violations of ethical tutoring here at Harvard arise from commercialization. Granted that these practices amount to cheating, the worst kind of cut-throat competition among the tutors results in making these ever more dubious. Each tutor must go his rival one better...
...result of Wolff's tip, the CRIMSON treated these three courses as "snaps" in an article February 8. Like Cramer, Wolff maintains that tutoring should supplement and coordinate University courses. Neither tutor feels that his rival conforms to this standard...
This is all very similar to the English system, where intra-mural athletics exist to the exclusion of everything but the final game with the rival blue. And even this is incorporated into Harvard's brawny heaven. For the season's culmination is to be a meeting with the champion gentlemen from New Haven. There is to be a little Yale-Harvard axis around which the minor sports world revolves, with all other colleges somewhere off in another universe...