Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plastiras. Onetime Dictator Plastiras, exiled foe and perpetual rival in conspiracy of Dictator Pangalos (TIME, March 1), turned up at Skoplje, Jugoslavia, and wandered out among its environs "to look for a villa." Several Jugoslavian policemen drifted out in the same direction. When Plastiras attempted to escape toward the Greek frontier they closed in and firmly escorted him back to Skoplje. The Jugoslavian authorities declared that they are offering to Colonel Plastiras "the hospitality due a political exile...
Coach Harry Cowles will not have a great deal of experienced material from which to chose next season's squash team but he has a wealth of Freshman material coming up. Captain Debevoise's younger brother bids fair to rival the figure that his older brother has been cutting in squash circles for the past three years...
...suggested that Bob Lincoln's attentions to Bessie Hale heaped fuel upon Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
Bolivar, the George Washington of South America, who bulks so large in the history of the northern part of that continent, is to be Professor Hackett's subject at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school...
...Crimson scores came at the beginning and very end of the game; during the intervening time, the rival defenses were more than equal to the pressure that the forward lines could apply...