Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University squash racquets team gained a prohibitive lead in the state league Saturday by defeating B. A. A., its closest rival, 4 to 1. The margin of superiority was so great that Captain Dixon and his teammates have virtually clinched the championship...
Peter Pan. At last Maude Adams has a rival. Absolute as was her Peter Pan-American sway, its end is near. Betty Bronson, obscure child of cinema chance, whom Barrie picked for the part from a photograph, will be the Peter the present and succeeding generations of U. S. childhood will cherish. From the greatest cavern of the city auditorium to the stuffy second-floor hall of the farm village Miss Bronson will scatter her gospel. She will scatter it through the medium of an uncannily adapted personality blended into a great picture that is at once beautiful, wise...
...first, the latter was the rival of the Knights of Labor; but Gompers' policy of "one step at a time," of "federation, not unification" of trades unions, carried the field. Only once was he defeated for President of the A. F. L. ?in 1895, by John McBride, then President of the United Mine Workers; but the next year the organization returned to his guidance...
...cartoon by Child is likely to be widely copied, not because it is as good a piece of drawing as the Lampoon has shown in many months, but because it is one of the neatest gibes at the prevailing craze that has yet appeared. Facing this is its nearest rival in this issue, whose own chief excellence is that it offers infinite possibilities, in style of treatment and in the heading. "Nursery Rhymes Retold", for a series of pictures hitting off an indefinite number of people and things within sight of Harvard Square...
...shoe laces when eight years old, and gradually rose to be a tailor's assistant. When I was 17.1 set up a business of my own, and have gradually expanded it until now I sell my clothes to farmers all over the country at $20 less than my nearest rival...