Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news from the rival camp of the Elis at Gales Ferry is not encouraging for the Crimson Freshmen. The Blue 1928 boat rowed the two-mile course in the excellent time of 9 minutes 37 seconds today, 12 seconds faster than that done by the Harvard Junior University, which beat the Freshmen by two lengths...
...when he foozled Tobin's toss to catch the runner at first, and two runs scored. Captain Hammond followed this with his only error of the game and when Toulmin passed Moulton, the bases were filled. The Crimson hurler rose to the occasion, however, and struck out Hamilton, his rival on the mound...
...hasty departure of Professor Baker from Cambridge to New Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse to protest against...
Newspaper magnates have found it profitable, of late years, to buy rival sheets, not to add to their collections, but to amalgamate them with their own, making one of two (or three or four) -reducing competition. But to buy a rival paper, amalgamate it out of existence, and promptly set up another-that is not so usual a procedure. Yet it was done last week, apparently with cogent reasons, depending on a given set of circumstances...
...trying to make his paper straddle two divisions of the Philadelphia public-people who avidly pored over the illustrated society section of the Ledger and more people who wanted sensations on the first page, slang in the headlines and, if denied, would read the Ledger's morning rival, the North American...