Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the first five until the Williams match. Marvin's rise up the ladder was not an easy one because there was a collection of prize Sophomores and much improved upperclassmen barring the way. Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell, a pair of Seniors, had come from nowhere to vie with Galen Felt for number one ranking. Nickerson's rise was of the story book variety. Infantile paralysis cost him the use of his right arm so he took up squash left-handed. Last season he was number ten; last week he was number one in the Princeton match, giving famed...
...wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of the air, vie with each other in predicting the size of the crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added and weighed these...
...quel prix est la vie...
Since then no first-class U. S. work in this field had appeared to vie with H. G. Wells's Anticipations or The Sleeper Awakes. But this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon...
Jaakko Mikkola and his cinder pounders will meet six other college tomorrow at Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the mythical championship of the Ivy League. Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale will vie with the Crimson in the annual heptagonal...