Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leads the Crimson stickmen with an average of .422. Last week he was batting only for .333, but his six hits last week were enough to push his average up to its present mark. Captain Todd follows the Harvard center fielder, and is in turn followed by Zarakov, his rival up to now for the batting crown. The Crimson third sacker also had a good week, pushing his mark up from .307 to its present...
...lumping together of a greater number of individuals than a rival community can boast is not in itself a contribution to happiness. Not even as an aid to advertising is a high relative rank important, since every business man shrewd enough to be successful looks for facts behind the figures...
...King Abdulla of Transjordania, Imam Yahya of Yemen, the Idrisi of Asir, Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz, Sheik Achmet of the Senussites and Abd-El-Krim. ... 5) The Califate Congress which met last week has already been repudiated by Sultan Ibn Saud, who has summoned a rival Califate Congress to meet at Mecca, next month - presumably on the theory that he seized the Califate from the Kings of the Hejaz when he overthrew them last year...
...imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger and fairer sister, coming back to build wings on the palace to shelter his three chief attachments. His ever-delicate actions and long, exceedingly elevated conversations, set down like tracery on rice-paper by Lady Murasaki long, long ago, are anglicized with great felicity...
Todd, besides passing Zarakov in hitting, has also crept up on his rival in base-stealing. Three men, besides these two, and Jones, now stand tied with four thefts apiece for the lead in this department...