Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when he matched strength with Samson, Cyclops, Atlas, Ajax or Hercules (rival strongmen). He was renowned for many years as the "strongest man in the world." He was appointed private trainer to His Majesty George V. He made a large fortune by bringing people into contact with dumbbells...
Student enthusiasm has been running high all week, and will reach its climax at a mass meeting tomorrow night. Both the Yale and Brown bands will be on hand, and speeches will be made by the rival coaches and by students of both universities...
...dropped' in deference to undergraduate and alumni demand for 'success,' who had accomplished all that could humanly be expected of him with the material at hand, but who from the beginning was all but doomed, and knew it, by the presence for three or four years at a rival institution of a few competitors of outstanding 'championship' callbre. Remembering this, one must admire the silent devotion to sport with which many a coach has labored for the development of his sport in the face of all but certain defeat, and has taken his own fall, when it came...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...Beekman Place, Manhattan, ("rival to Sutton Place"), real estate dealers have induced many people, "smart," "artistic" and "high-grade," to fix their abodes. At No. 23 lives Katherine Cornell, famed actress; at No. 27, Actor William Farnum; nearby are Earle Booth, Margalo Gillmore; and at No. 37 one Marcus Schlossman, dealer in plumbing supplies, a blunt forthright fellow, has his home. Long has Plumber Schlossman viewed with alarm the growing "exclusiveness" of the district, the efforts of realtors to attract even more fine feathers. It did not help the plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even...