Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of issues as a decisive force is striking. In Massachusetts the candidates of both great parties have maintained the same attitude on the more outstanding questions. In New Jersey a prominent "wet" was the Republican candidate for governor on a "dry" ticket and his Democratic rival, a teetotalier, was politically a "wet." All over the country conditions have been much the same--a blurring of issues and comparative stagnation in both great camps...
Henry Cabot Lodge's defeat of William A. Gaston, his Democratic rival for the Massachusetts Senatorship, by about 20,000 votes seemed fairly well assured...
...such texts as Duncan's "The New Knowledge" or the "Inside of the Atom", Harvard can give a course suited to the many searchers after that board knowledge necessary to culture and speculation. Must they always be plunged unwittingly into chemistry courses for the specialist? Will Harvard offer no rival attraction to the Lowell Institute lectures...
...first of the big races is scheduled for 10.30 o'clock Friday when the rival Freshman eights, with Yale a favorite meet over the two mile course, rowing downstream. Immediately after this will come the contest for the Junior crews, over the same course with the Crimson a slight favorite. The four-mile contest will be held at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon. All the races will run according to Eastern Standard time...
...that of his opponent. At the end of the first 18 holes, played in the morning, he was ahead 6 up, and though showed some brilliant work in the afternoon, turning "eagles" on the twenty-fourth and holes, his game proved and he was unable to overcome his rival's lead...