Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been confessed to before the Supreme Court that a map of the Soviet Union last week was a map of assassinations, rail wrecks, mine explosions, sabotage and conspiracy by Old Bolsheviks (see map), plus everywhere the spirit of Leon Trotsky, exiled from Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also...
...personal hobby is collecting Pennsylvania Dutch furniture and anecdotes. Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven't made any sauerkraut this year, just five barrels in case of sickness." The collector laughed so uproariously the farmer refused to sell...
...told you so!" shouted Pastor's promoter, James J. Johnston, who had promised to explode the box-office prestige of his rival Promoter Mike Jacobs' Joe Louis. "Louis is a terrific hitter but he's not a great fighter. He can't hit a moving target. Pastor didn't fight him because he followed instructions to keep moving and keep out of Louis...
...yard free style, Seth Heywood, Jr., of Andover and A. Greenhood of Exeter will strive for victory, as will Frank Schofield, Jr., of Moses Brown in the 100-yard free style. K. Twining of St. Gorge's will probably find T. H. Mahoney of Andover his strongest rival in the diving contest...
...practicality, by some genuinely practical instruction. Scholarly training, no matter how it shun theory, can hardly substitute for that. The scheme of bringing part of Washington here, instead of sending the students to Washington, may indeed make the graduates acceptable to their government. At any rate, the two rival schemes will continue side by side for some time to come, and the success of the two can be compared. As the greater system will probably ultimately absorb the smaller, the scheme proven the more efficient can be accepted by it as the final solution...