Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...
Tuan & Taso. Tuan Chi-jui, "the Chief Executive of China" (since the office of President is vacant), had either been imprisoned while his rival Taso Kun (the last President) had been released from jail; or Tuan's personal soldier- police were still protecting him and keeping in confinement such of his enemies as were in their power...
...that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries has one been found to rival...
...Leland Stanford they stood up and cheered Bud Houser. Mr. Houser hails from the University of Southern California, a rival musnud of learning. None the less, he heaved a discus 158 ft. 1% in. last week. That was 11% in. farther than a discus had ever been hurled. Therefore Stanfordites cheered him well...
Many who have read the extracts from the report of the Student Council Committee of Education, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, have considered Section III, concerning Subdivision into Colleges, an undergraduate attempt to rival Plato. Remembering that the "house divided" is supposed to fall, they see in this project of the Committee an excellent means of destroying Harvard. Yet upon further consideration, one can more clearly understand just what the plan implies and why it is both necessary and practical...