Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before, Thomas A. Edison, in an interview in Collier's Weekly, had declared that the next great invention would be a practical helicopter. Prof. Klemin explained the requirements of a successful helicopter and foresaw its future development, not as a rival to the airplane but as a supplement adapted to special purposes such as rising and descending vertically and hovering over one spot...
Dooley, Bunnell, Stafford, and Williams were the outstanding quarterbacks to be considered. The first two named were finally selected in that order. On a dry field Bunnell might have surpassed his brilliant Dartmouth rival. As it was, he called his plays with rare judgment. Stafford bows to no one as a defensive player, but the Crimson team lacked the inherent power of the attack to give him a real opportunity to show his field generalship to advantage. Williams was a brilliant ball carrier in the Harvard Princeton game, but he was playing more as a halfback than as a quarter...
There was the famous case, of course, of the Italian-Hungarian duel-and of the Frenchiboxer who bit the ear of his English opponent. But what can you expect, in all common-sense? It is not so very long ago that individual members of rival football team, both Americans, and both supposedly united by the bond of a higher education, would "fight it out" by themselves after the game, is it so harrowing that two strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident...
Annie Dear. Billie Burke has been prying about for a good play without success so long that her husband (F. Ziegfeld) tired of the search. He proposed to bring her back to musical comedy. Since her husband is quite without a rival in producing musical entertainment, Miss Burke consented. The outcome was Annie Dear...
...Pastor Shaw would not wait. He marched to the rival Binghamton Sun and in its columns accused the Press of insincerity, asked for the $1,000 promised his church...