Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French forces in Morocco were said to rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...which almost any traveler seems able to acquire in the Pacific Islands in the form of a living household decoration are again discussed. Anita Stewart appears for the defense, lovely indeed, and marvelously marcelled. There is a gentleman from San Francisco and a journalist who waits around for his rival to desert. The display is chiefly commendable for a collection of rarely beautiful exteriors...
William M. Johnston, his Davis Cup teammate and rival, whom he has defeated so often since he took the national title from him in 1920. The score was 6-4, 6-3, 9-7. Johnston stood the grilling pace (which lasted an hour and a quarter) well. He came off appearing fresh, which was more than he did after his defeat by Tilden at Forest Hills last year (TIME, Sept. 8). But he did not have the drive to meet the drive. Tilden said of himself that he played the best tennis that he has ever played at Chicago. Sandy...
...good, that it would be more satisfactory to shippers generally, that it would make management more efficient, that it would not cause complications with the "recapture" clause, and that its dependence upon both values is no drawback. On all these grounds the "Potter plan" has been assailed by rival Northwest carriers...
...other living man in private life can lay claim to so widely known a name." This is another broad statement?but what artist in any art, what business man in any business, what scientist in any science can rival...