Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers can at times give way to courtesy. In the press room of The New York World, a spark from a dynamo flew into a pile of papers and started a fire that damaged two presses and stopped the remainder. The General Manager of The New York Herald (Munsey), rival morning paper, on hearing of the fire, at once offered the World the use of his presses...
Insulin, most talked of medical discovery of the century, now has a rival for treating diabetes-intarvin, a form of artificial fat that can be eaten and digested by diabetic patients. It was discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in collaboration with Dr. Ralph H. McKee, professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. "Intarvin," meaning "intermediate fat," is so named because one molecule of it contains 17 carbon atoms instead of the 16 or 18 usual in ordinary fats. This is the first successful commercial manufacture...
After Smith's death, Young claimed the succession to his office. He contrived to have the Council of Twelve, of which he was head, made the supreme authority in the Church, and had his most potent rival, Rigdon, tried for threatening treason and " cut off from the Church." It was not until 1847, however, that Young was chosen as Smith's successor. Under his leadership the Mormons migrated to Salt Lake City. When Utah was admitted into the United States as a territory in 1850, Young was the first Governor. He died in 1877, leaving an estate of more than...
...years she would use no makeup. She preferred to make her entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor. All her life she shunned publicity. Bernard Shaw declared her incomparably the superior of Bernhardt, after witnessing their rival interpretations of La Dame aux Camellias...
...other Christian organization fighting Mormonism is evangelistic and tractarian. It is the Utah Gospel Mission of Cleveland, Ohio, Rev-John R. Nutting, Secretary. This work was at first ignored by the Mormons who are now organizing rival meetings and rival drives...