Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard's remaining five rivals, three will encounter heavy opposition in their games today. Brown, which is to invade Soldiers Field on November 14, and Dartmouth, the Crimson's rival next week, have not yet progressed beyond their preliminary games...
...north of the Yangtze River, would start a war by invading Shansi Province. His motives would be: 1) to embarrass the existing official government at the time of the Customs Conference; 2) to capture Shansi, a rich province which has never been completely controlled by any of the leading rival warlords...
Religious conditions in Russia are the best example of the impotency of an absolute dictatorship to strike at the root-feelings of humanity. The heads of the Soviet Government, admitted atheists, have made a determined assault upon the Orthodox Church by suppressive measures and by launching the rival "laving Church." The great mass of the peasantry have quietly gone on worshipping in the same way as before. Now the Government has surrendered to the ex tent of adopting a laissez-faire policy toward religion. In this, as in countless other ways, the stabilizing weight of the great mass...
...turbine for efficiency, economy, and simplicity of operation. Lately the trend has been toward Diesel type motors for all but the largest of ships. The Denny experimental ship, plying as a ferry on the River Clyde, will be closely observed to see if steam has caught up with its rival...
...while Frank D. Waterman, nephew of L. E. Waterman, famed fountain pen maker, was being congratulated on having received the Republican nomination for Mayor, an old man sat in a vacant office on Madison Ave. staring at a fountain pen of antique design. He, Warren N. Lancaster, onetime business rival of the famed Waterman, told reporters how luck had undone...