Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletic savants as the best four entered in the event, again demonstrated the triumph of mind over matter by romping around the boards and finishing more than half a lap from its nearest opponent, the Lampoon team, in the Publications' Relay. The Advocate team, the CRIMSON's only other rival in the event, entirely failed to show up at the grounds, and thus lost by default...
...account of the Honduran civil war (TIME, Feb. 11, et seq.) the Government of the U. S. severed diplomatic relations with Honduras. U. S. Minister Morales remained at Tegucigalpa, however, making unofficial effort to bring the rival political leaders together...
With him-on a voyage which may yet rival that of Darwin's Beagle-are 15 expert helpers. For Simmons seeks to learn the truth about Atlantis, the "continent" that lies in the twilight zone between mythology, history and science. What, when and where was it? Who inhabited it? What became of it? These are some of the questions the expedition hopes to settle...
William Lyon Phelps' foreword to the catalogue: "An exhibition of the works of Mr. John Sargent is the most important event of this kind that could at this moment happen anywhere, as he is the foremost living painter in the world. He has no successful living rival, but is in a class by himself...
...Bronx (borough of New York City), rival factions of ice-dealers fought a pitched battle in the streets. Ice-picks, ice-tongs, blocks of ice and iron bars were wielded. Six icemen were injured, eight arrested...