Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeds, adding sardonic "ha-has" to show the kind of dog he is. This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along, but has kept silence in order to learn...
...usual, the balance sheet of the Ford Motor Co., filed in Massachusetts, is the admiration and despair of rival automobile manufacturers. The Ford statement is as of Feb. 29, 1924, and shows total assets of $568,101,639-consisting of $93 million real estate; $87 million machinery and equipment; $94 million merchandise, materials and stock in process; $271 million in cash, accounts receivable, etc.; and $20 million good will. The large cash item also includes securities, patent rights and trademarks. As against these, the liabilities consist of $17 million capital stock; $71 million accounts payable; $37 million reserve for Federal...
Coach Newell sends his B 150-pound boat into the second event of the regatta, the race of the light boats of Harvard, Penn, and M. I. T. This shell, stroked by Dudley Merrill '26, won the right to represent the University in the event when they defeated the rival A crew last Thursday by one length over the Henly distance...
Toulmin, in the box for the home team, was less spectacular but fully as effective as his rival. He took advantage of his early lead and did not extend himself except when necessary. The Pine Tree staters made only four hits, one more than the Crimson, and nine of the visitors were retired on strikes. All three Bowdoin runs were earned, however, by heavy hitting. A home run to the lacrosse field by left fielder Williams in the fourth chalked up one score. Two more came across in the fifth on a sharp single to right by right fielder Daggett...
...however, Ingraham snatched the match from defeat by winning 8-6. Against Coleman, a semi-finalist in the University fall tournament, Captain Pfaffmann went down to a bad defeat. Briggs, playing third for the University against Auger of Lincoln's Inn displayed brilliant tennis in rapidly disposing of his rival. A fast three set match between the number four men started strong for Lincoln's Inn, then the outcome balanced, and finally fell on the Harvard side, Cummings had defeated Farnham, a member of the University team two years...