Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renger's optimistic, slightly "golden rule" philosophy of life was made known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect...
...held on February 8, the Witangemot and Langdell clubs will clash. The facts for this argument will be out on January 11. Powell and Scott will debate on February 9, and the facts will be announced January 12. On February 10. Hudson and Jeremiah Smith clubs will vie for argumentative honors. The facts will be given to these two clubs on January 13. The final meeting will be between the James Bryce and Marshall lawyers on February 11, and the facts will be announced January...
Besides the usual Instrumental and Glee Club selections, the Barbary Coast Orchestra of Dartmouth and the new Gold Coast Orchestra of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will vie with each other in livening the evening...
News candidates are reporters. It is they who gather the news for the daily issues, competing for this news on equal footing with professional reporters for the Boston and New York dailies. As reporters they vie with one another for scoops, for which they receive extra credit; they fulfill assignments; they secure timely interviews with prominent men and women in every field. In short, they become full fleged newspapermen. After making the board, they have an opportunity to compete for executive positions on the paper...
Pipers who desire, in these times, to be paid by those who dance, vie with one another to find new pipes...