Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then there came the matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed to the rostrum and charged Bishop Sampson with injustice. "You are a liar, sir! Get off this rostrum at once or I'll have you thrown off and out of the building!" Bishop Sampson screeched. A jungle fury lighted...
...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...collection. The throng included Dutch bidders eager to retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went for $1,800,000; Rembrandt's Man with a Cleft Chin, probably a portrait of his son, brought $200,000; his picture of a Man holding the Torah...
...feet one and one-half inches. Sabin Carr, Yale captain, is close behind this mark with his former world record of 14 feet. Ward Edmonds of Stanford University took third in the Interscholastics last year when he was a sophomore, and has since developed into a strong potential rival for first honors...
While the various armies engaged in the current Chinese war maneuver under the leadership of rival generals with unpronounceable names, the policy of watchful waiting Japan has had to adopt since the Peace Conference took Shantung away from her begins to show sings of developing into more aggressive tactics. Nine years after the treaty, the rest of the world that retains any interest whatsoever in China has become thoroughly disillusioned as to the possibility of that country developing a peaceful regime unaided. So when the time comes, as appearance indicate it will before long, for intervention to be repeated...