Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battleground, beheld Mr. Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
Exeter originally was scheduled to play Andover in its annual battle with its, traditional rival today, but an epidemic of measles at Andover has necessitated the postponement of the game to a later date. The Exeter officials then invited the Freshmen to come up and take the place of the Andover team, because all of the arrangements for a game today had been made. The contest will be looked upon as an informal game and the results will not be included in the official records of the teams...
...Barrymores, though actually of Hampden's age (John is now 47; Lionel, 50; Hampden, 48) seemed too young. Otis Skinner seemed ruled out by his hostility to the Actors' Equity Association. So Walter Hampden really had no rival as "Uncle John" Drew's successor...
...years since a Harvard Freshman basketball team has conquered its Blue rival but it is thought that this year the Crimson has an excellent chance of breaking this string of defeats...
...difficulty in raising such specialized forms of life as the "most modest senior" is nothing, however, to that of telling who he is once you have him. Here as nowhere else must Harvard congratulate her traditional rival; powers of selection such as this are scarcely to be found even in the judges of the Atlantic City beauty contest, who, one is lead to believe, yearly pick the "best looking" American. Not content with mere externals, however, Yale Seniors confidently proceed to confound the personnel workers of a nation by the closest determination of so-called personality traits...