Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Randall is one of what he calls six stalwarts who eat lunch regularly at the Harvard Club's last vestige of an address, a small suite of rooms in the Princeton Club. It is both a source of embarassment to the traditionalists to have to dine in an Ivy rival's club and a constant reminder that the club should augment its $15,000 endowment and take up residence in its own clubhouse where Harvard gentlemen can sneak a smoke and a quick drink between court cases and bank transactions. But the recent grads, including most of the Harvard Club...
Niemi's throw of 192 ft 8 in was his lifetime best. Cross-river rival Boris Djerassi of-Northeastern was the eventual winner of the event...
Meanwhile, the Russians are also realizing that close friendship has its hazards. Iraq and Syria, whose rival Baath parties have been quarreling for years, are now involved in an even more feral argument over sharing the Euphrates' water; the Soviets are damned if they take sides and damned if they don't. Moscow is also faced with an inevitable conflict between Communism and either Arab nationalism or Moslem theocracy, or both...
...souls were imprisoned by earthly life. The only escape was salvation through possession of an esoteric gnosis (Greek for knowledge), which led to union with an abstract supreme being. Such was the creed of Gnosticism, a strange amalgam of beliefs that was orthodox Christianity's main rival in the early centuries after Christ...
...first comprehensive view of Gnosticism as "a religion in its own right." That view is startling indeed. The Gnostics were imaginative religious scavengers who borrowed freely from various sources to furnish their own scriptures. But they evidently felt a particular need to co-opt and corrupt elements of their rival, Christianity. Typically, two of the best-known tracts from the Nag Hammadi library, the previously published Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Philip, contain sayings of Jesus purportedly collected by two of his Apostles but often twisted by the Gnostics to fit their own radically ascetic, relentlessly spiritual outlook...