Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general tone of optimism pervaded the three rival camps in the University on the eve of the presidential elections. With the active campaign a thing of the past, managers of the three parties await demonstration of the success or failure of their efforts in the balloting today...
...Harvard has another obstacle to cross in the form of Boston University, before it meets its ancient rival. From a point of view of points scored, B. U. has not had an impressive record this season, but it has come up against more than ordinary opposition. Following its victory over Maine at the opening game, it has lost to Holy Cross, Brown, and West Point...
...lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an un precedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Bal- manno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue in the class for harness horses over 15.2 hands. Blooded, debonair and sleek, Knight Commander is like the horse of a legend: flawless in line; in action, the incarnation of scrupulous dandyism. His performance in this show makes him the most valuable hackney in the world...
Taking a page in a rival or brother sheet, The New York Herald-Tribune last week published an advertisement as big as a banner which was headed "The Most Successful of Newspaper Mergers." It went on to state that "the first six months, the critical period in every merger," are now passed. "The circulation statement of The New York Herald-Tribune shows a net paid circulation of more than 92% of The New York Herald and The New York Tribune as filed separately for the same six months of 1923." It furnished the figures...
...total number of paid admissions for the game is approximately 51,500. Including the regiment of officials named above, the mmbers of the rival squads, and those lucky souls who have been able to get the coveted sideline passes, the crowd at the Stadium will attain its maximum capacity...