Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...
...goal position. Morrill was perhaps the outstanding player of the Freshman team two years ago, and it was largely due to his stellar work that the 1928 six went through its season with such great success. Adams alternated with Morrill as substitute last year and is giving his rival a close race...
Died. Joseph H. Steinhardt, 62, "Apple King of America"; in Manhattan, of heart disease. As German immigrant boy, he early encountered one Thomas Kelly as his chief pushcart rival; the two exchanged daily abuse until suddenly Steinhardt said: "Let's cut this out and be partners." A handshake over the pushcart was the only contract, and when Kelly recently died they were still devoted friends...
...Harvard Law Library has no equal in breadth of scope in the world, its only possible rival, the Congressional Library, having a less complete collection of books of Anglo-American, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, German and South American law. It is expected that the Endowment Fund Drive recently launched by Dean Roscoe Pound will permit yet more expansion and specialization within the Library...
...women's press, (Harper's Bazar, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) bit their nails and stamped their feet. Again they had been done in by Condé* Nast, sleek publisher of Vogue. Especially must it have pained Vogue's glossy rival, Harper's Bazar (a Hearst product), to learn that Mr. Nast, than whose technique for commingling business with social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department of New York University, a course...