Word: vies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment this large order, the Lutherans took up other things. The 560 delegates in Philadelphia represented 30 U. S. and three Canadian synods, with 962,461 communicants. The three Canadian synods petitioned the convention to let them out, pleading that as an independent, patriotic group they could better vie with Canada's other merged Protestant churches. Their petition was to be discussed this week...
Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...
After the formal opening of the Carnival, many different features vie with each other to attract the visitor's attention. The Dartmouth Players present their mid-winter attraction, and fraternity dances are held, climaxed on the last evening with the Carnival Hall. During the day athletic contests take place, not only winter sports but also varsity swimming and basketball...
Every year universities and colleges throughout the U. S. and Canada vie with each other in paying honor to those whom they hold to be great or near-great. Last week the 1932 kudos season got under way with Wooster College (Ohio) giving an L.H.D. to First Lady Lou Henry Hoover. The following other colleges conferred upon the following other people the following degrees...
Here for the first time, the brothers in the same picture vie with each other in claiming the attention of the audience. At one moment Lionel may be seen nodding in a satisfied manner, laughing scornfully, and ordering like a master, while in the next is John, who speaks gently, jokes lightly, and compares himself with champagne, "the kind you can drink at any time, even before breakfast...