Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard lightweights will be shooting for their second straight victory of the season today, taking on down-river rival MIT and Dartmouth on the Charles, in competition for the Biglin Bowl...
...full capacity. She was gloriously confident, full of defiance and swagger, and poured out her ten-minute solo aria in the third act with the beauty that comes from inexhaustible strength. As it turned out, she had a mob of fans in the audience to rival Sills's; the Sills people were wildly adoring but the Verrett people were fierce--they had more to prove. Verrett's solo netted a five-minute ovation, rhythmic pounding on the floor, shouts of "Brava, diva!" and a shower of shredded programs from the top balcony. The Sills fans were wealtheir--they threw bouquets...
...around Good Friday. Jeremiah's sense of suffering captures the appropriate Christian feeling at that time of year: "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." In an age when religion and music were inextricably bound, many of the great masters created vocal settings that rival the text in beauty...
...when he was installed as head of the Nationalist government, the generalissimo's power and influence were at their crest. Even then, however, Chiang was continuously troubled by rebellious warlord generals, rival Communist governments and revolts within his own Kuomintang. When Japanese troops marched into Manchuria in 1931, the Nationalist army was already fully occupied with a series of vast, costly annihilation campaigns against the Communists' rural bases. Not until 1936 did Chiang agree to set aside the civil war and join the Communists in the fight against the Japanese invaders. His armies tied down huge numbers...
TRACK: The track team takes on rival Northeastern Saturday at Soldiers Field. The thinclads, coming off a loss to Baptist College April 5, will be looking to avenge winter losses to the Huskies...