Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Standish meets Company B, and Lowell has to defend its title against a dangerous Company C quintet. Tomorrow afternoon the Bellboys run up against Adams in what may be the decisive game of the year, and Companies A and B vie. The two NROTC squads face each other, and Company C will take on Company D Thursday...
Petree's program has helped the lusty Los Angeles furniture business vie with that of Grand Rapids. But Petree, bubbling with such ideas as mass sales of prefabricated homes, thinks it is just the beginning. Said he: "We can hardly wait for the war to be over...
Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...
...Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, ace German military commentator, admitted in a somber radio analysis for his people that the enemy was "at the gates" of the Fatherland, that Germany was facing vast attacks on three fronts by Allied forces superior in men and materials. Other spokesmen seemed almost to vie with each other in gloom...