Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprisingly enough, there are very few large-scale gang wars in Cambridge. A few years ago, about 200 Cambridge youths invaded Belmont to redress an alleged grievance, but nothing came of that foray. On the whole, the fighting has been confined to chance encounters between a few members of rival gangs. The odds are seldom even, and if one gang is able to obtain an eight to one numerical advantage, more power...
...world, the Jews must have translated their sacred literature into Greek "to bring the contents of the Biblical books to the attention of the cultured Greek-reading public." To serve these "promotional and propagandistic purposes," they felt it necessary to deck them out with illustrations "as luxury editions to rival those of illustrated Greek classics." later adapted the same pictures as murals to make their "synagogues rival the painted pagan temples...
...three weeks had passed since the University of Michigan announced that the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund had given it 210 acres, including the home of Henry Ford, and $6,500,000 to start a branch college at Dearborn (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week Arch Rival Michigan State University of East Lansing announced a windfall of its own-the 1,400-acre Oakland County estate belonging to the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. In addition, the Wilsons were kicking in $2,000,000 to endow an M.S.U. branch...
...R.P.M. RECORDS are being slashed in price to get bigger share of booming teen-age market for inexpensive disks. RCA Victor will spend $1,000,000 in 1957 for ads to plug 45s, has cut album prices up to 40%. RCA and top rival Columbia will price individual extended-play 45s at $1.29, down from...
With the meet hanging on the final relay, the 400-yard freestyle, anchorman Dyer began nearly one-half a body-length behind, and finished nearly ten yeards ahead of his Army rival. Unofficially, he was clocked in :49.9 for the 100 yards, .4 second faster than his own record which he had tied previously in the meet. Jon Lind, Pete Macky, and Dick Seaton swam the other three legs...