Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since Britain then produced five-sevenths of the World's rubber, she might, by curtailing her own production, create a scarcity of rubber such that the price would rise. In the year 1925, as has been said, this assumption was temporarily justified. So high a price, however, encouraged rival Dutch producers to extend their plantations. Moreover U. S. rubber manufacturers, urged by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain...
...craving for the limelight is contageous; for during the trial a pistol shot is heard outside the courtroom, and another murderous picture flashes on the front page of the morning yellow sheets. Roxie now had a rival, and not to be outdone, she further complicates her trial with the announcement that she is soon to be a mother...
...before it began, Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, and George Godfrey, black man, were eliminated for business reasons. Jack Sharkey, after fighting to a draw with Heeney, was eliminated by Johnny Risko. Risko has eliminated all his opponents so far but is not now matched to meet anybody. Promoter Humbert Fugazy, rival of Rickard, is trying to match Tunney with George Godfrey...
Though the price of the 32 Sloans was the largest ever paid for the works of a living U. S. artist, it still did not rival the $55,000 which Mr. Knoedler & Co. paid when the collection of the late Charles H. Senff was sold last week, for Frans Hals's Portrait of a Dutch Lady. It is an interesting demonstration of the force of fashions among collectors that, in one evening's bidding at the same sale, 35 pictures by members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more...
...university be the leader of a cultural squadron and not its water boy. Last week Glenn Frank applied this theory to the British Empire and suggested that H. R. H. the Prince of Wales be the leader. In The Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, for 39 years a rival of Town Topics, Glenn Frank wrote...