Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member who sponsored him. And financial kickbacks were not unheard of either. Soon families split apart in the clamor to win a committee position. Age-old feuds gained new fury, and at least two deaths resulted. Ultimately the two largest families-each with about 1,500 members-set up rival committees...
...Crimson is now 1-4 in Ivy standings, with a 3-7 overall season record. Harvard has traditionally had trouble with its rival, having lost 38 out of 50 games since the series began...
Parker's concern stems not so much from fraternal sympathy for Quaker coach Ted Nash as from the fact that the seeding now puts Penn in the same heat with Harvard, not the most desirable morning rival. Were the Quakers seeded either second or third, Harvard's major trial heat opponent would have been Northeastern, with Princeton, Yale and Boston University added for savage amusement. Definitely a less worrisome group...
...women who capture the public imagination today? Angela Davis? Germaine Greer? Shirley Chisholm? Each of them does command unusual attention, but none of them more than two long-dead ladies: Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, her contemporary and bitter rival. Their sudden popularity is a turn of the popular psyche that befuddles the critics, but, in this day of so-called new politics, Elizabeth and Mary's Old World politics remain as fascinating as ever. Four centuries old, history's most famous catfight still reverberates passionately, and every entertainment...
Whatever problems Polaroid may encounter with its new instant-processing camera and film, they will not include any immediate competition from the company's chief rival in the amateur camera market, Eastman Kodak Co. Although Kodak is making "solid progress toward an in-camera processing system of our own," according to President Gerald B. Zornow, company officials declined to predict when it might be available. Kodak's entry into the pocket-photography race-the recently introduced Pocket Instamatic (TIME, March 27)-is much further along. Zornow reports that orders placed by camera dealers have "all but erased substantial...