Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means assured him, and the chief obstacle in his way is his classmate, Rick Hedblom. Ever since their Freshman year, these two have been fighting it out at the trigger post. Russell has had the edge thus far in their careers but while he was benched this season, his rival has been storing up some valuable experience and acquitting himself well whenever given the opportunity. In fact right now it looks as though Hedblom may be leading in the center stakes. The scrimmages this week will decide...
...King (RKO-Radio) places Joe E. Brown, his great mouth and banshee yawp in the newspaper business, to the patent disadvantage of all concerned. In the course of his six-reel career he frustrates craven intrigues in a turbulent Graustarkian monarchy, out-halfwits his press rival, Paul Kelly, wins the hand of Puppet Princess Helen Mack...
...every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke for the first time since 1920 defeated North Carolina (7-to-0). When a controversy over boxing between Virginia and Tulane precipitated the long impending split in the Southern Conference the following year. Duke wai the strongest team...
...first impressive rival to the Beaux-Arts school appeared in Germany after the War when Walter Gropius looked around him at a mechanized, technically refined civilization and persuaded the city fathers of Weimar that artistry would have to be combined with it, not sugared over it. By the time his Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925, its faculty and students were able to collaborate on a set of workshops and dormitories which have become classics of intelligent architecture. The city of Dessau helped support the school. Its students were given a thorough ground-breaking course in the possibilities...
Before a big bonfire on Duquesne University's campus ("the Bluff") in Pittsburgh fortnight ago, stocky, fortyish Rev. Thomas R. Jones danced in Roman collar and black hat. To 2.000 Duquesne students gathered to warm up for next day's football game with arch-rival University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Professor Jones roared: "Duquesne's football players will be out there fighting because they love their school. The Pitt team will be out there fighting, too, but only for their weekly pay checks...