Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the Crimson and Blue shells have taken the wash from a rival boat once this season. But the only victor over Harvard was the Annapolis eight, generally considered the strongest crew in the country, and the probable winner in the Poughkeepsie regatta Monday. Yale's colors were dipped only to Princeton in an amazing upset on Lake Carnegie, in which the over-confident Eli eight was caught napping. Both of the rivals have beaten Cornell and Pennsylvania; Harvard has defeated M. I. T. and Yale has taken Columbia's measure. So for the first time in many years...
...gain an open-water lead, the Elis conserving their strength until the last two miles, when they pulled ahead to win. If Yale gets behind tomorrow, they will find it difficult to catch up. Stroke John Watts '28, once his crew gets the lead, keeps his eye on the rival boat, matches every sprint, and strives to catch the oppoing coxwain napping. But if Yale gets a distinct lead at the start, the heady Laughlin should manage to keep ahead, for although the Harvard crew is gigantically powerful, the Yale oarsmen are no weaklings...
...severance of Anglo-Soviet relations by Great Britain (TIME, June 6) brought on at Moscow last week a political crisis. Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin was again openly criticized for the first time since last fall by his incessant rival, Lev Davidovitch Trotzky. Amid the excitement, Sir Robert Hodgson, Chief of the British Mission at Moscow, quietly departed for London with his staff on the Riga Express...
...University of Pennsylvania baseball team. The game will constitute one of the leading events of a gala weekend for the City of Brotherly Love, since today is Alumni Day at the Pennsylvania university, and a crowd numbering about 20,000 is expected to witness the clash of the rival nines...
...Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; England and France with new interests and possessions, are naturally less ready than ever...