Word: rival
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacle of an aeroplane cleaving through the skies. As a sport, its devotees place it high above the earthly pleasures of football or rowing. But it has not yet found its place among the recognized college sports of American universities. Annual college contests in the air bid fair to rival in interest and excitement the popular field sports of yesterday. The pioneers in this movement are undergraduates at Harvard, and already, within a year after doffing their flying uniforms for college robes, they have won a score and more of College Flying Clubs to their plan. Several universities in America...
...being the only University daily. While the Advocate and Lampoon represent at times, other phases of undergraduate opinion, their specialized functions, and the fact that they appear monthly and semi-monthly respectively, place them at a disadvantage as vehicles for the expression of College viewpoint. And so far, no rival daily paper expressing views opposite to those of the CRIMSON has appeared at Harvard...
...necessary that it be carried into effect by the blending of as varied points of view as possible. There are many men at Harvard who believe that the CRIMSON does not now express undergraduate opinion. For these men, two courses are open. Either they should start a rival paper or they may strive to make the CRIMSON more representative...
Radicals contend that society is dividing into two rival classes; the middle-class trade unionists would apparently split it into three. If they are aiming, as they assert, to protect the consumer, they have overlooked the fact that capitalists and laborers are also consumers, who share the public interest equally with those persons who are eligible for middle-class trade unionism...
...totals in point run up by the rival teams were identical, the five high men on each squad aggregating 966 tallies for their side, but as the University shooting on Remington U.M.C. targets scored 1.7 and 38's, to the 1.7 and 6.8's made by the New York men with Winchester targets, the government expert decided that the Harvard quintet had the best...