Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of Congress and other Washingtonians received a royal proclamation inviting them to join the "Chivalric citizenry" of the "Royal and Beneficent Domain" of the "Knights of the Flaming Sword," a rival of the Ku Klux Klan now being advanced by William J. Simmons, one-time promoter of the Klan...
...Great Britain. Exclusive of Persia, 1,607,053 square miles of territory with 35,000,000 inhabitants-more territory than there is in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas; valuable natural resources; destruction of her only great rival, both naval and commercial...
...trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson, a rival Finn...
...another race, Willie Ritola, "rival Finn," ran 5,000 metres in 14 min. 392-5 sec., thereby lowering the worlds' record of 14 min. 44 3-5 sec., made by Nurmi...
Meanwhile from Tirana. Albanian capital, comes news of the "villain" of this latest Balkan drama. Ahmed Zogu, inveterate rival of Bishop Noli, is now in full control of the government. The constituent assembly has declared Albania a republic, with a constitution modeled after that of the United States, and has named Zogu as president for a term of seven years...