Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hotchkiss the precocious editor found a rival to test his hotly competitive nature; in print, he was soon pummeling the writings of Henry Robinson Luce, editor of the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly. Their friendly competition turned to collaboration on the Yale Daily News, where Hadden was chairman and Luce managing editor. On graduation their classmates picked Hadden as "most likely to succeed" and Luce as "most brilliant" of their class...
...cause of all this excitement is probably the biggest lacrosse game of the year. The Green, always a traditional rival, has been building up the occasion by walloping Harvard several years in a row. That alone would red-letter the game...
...Country. At the time, Muñoz considered himself a Socialist; as early as 1920 he had joined the Puerto Rican Socialist Party which, by & large, was a collection of sincere but ineffective labor reformers. When, to his disgust, its leaders tied themselves up in a coalition with the rival Unionists and the Republicans, Muñoz switched to the new Liberal Party. He worked in it until 1938, when he broke with the party leadership and pulled out, taking many of the most vigorous workers with him. Telling his followers that he was sick of politicos and city folk...
...kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped Jack London, reporting for the rival Examiner, by fishing the victim's severed head out of San Francisco Bay. He was arrested for removing evidence, but the photographed head made Page One, and in San Francisco the gruesome exhibit made Campbell the reporter hero...
...soth anniversary this week, Packard proudly unveiled its first 1949 models. On the outside, they looked much the same as the old ones. But under the floorboards there was something to send rival automakers back to their drawing boards. Packard had come out with a new automatic shift-and those who had driven it gave it the edge on Buick's Dynaflow. The shift will be standard on the highest-priced line, the Custom 8s, optional on the lower-priced Supers...