Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosaic matters such as bullets do still enter into consideration, just as forcefully as they impress themselves upon the soldier; still, the romance of war is redeemed by the paltry value of the arid soil the Spanish and Moroccans are fighting over. This is no bating-match between rival nationalities; it is rather a jousting time for lumbering knights-errant...
...Waldo Frank-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). John Mark was a doctor and a genius, albeit a young one. He loved "Mildred, chaste as thought, Mildred, deep as discovery, Mildred, remote and imminent as truth!" Two things stood between him and Mildred-his parents' opposition to the match and a rival whom he had never seen. The rival was murdered under circumstances of which he was mysteriously conscious. Shortly thereafter, his parents were also assassinated. In both crimes, a strange figure with a white head was curiously implicated. John Mark began to feel that he himself was in some occult...
...Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...
Despite forecasts to the contrary, neither Springfield's University or Freshman cross-country team gave its Crimson rival much trouble yesterday. The University meet went against the visitors, 22-35, while the Crimson Freshmen overwhelmed Springfield...
...rival elevens, then, taken as a whole, match up very evenly, which makes it almost impossible to predict a victory for either side. The general feeling gives Harvard a small margin, but a single break can turn the tables