Word: rival
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field of art, a picture must be reproduced to show to the many, the system works, since the visual is the only quality to be taken into consideration. But in the field of history the visual education method is not comprehensive. It exhibits history in flashes that print cannot rival, but it does not go below the surface and reveal what is only revealed by that more arduous process, study...
...clock on the evening of April 11, the two Germans and the Irishman were bending over maps and weather reports. Twice before that day the weather news had disappointed them. Also, word had come from Paris that Frenchmen were tuning up rival planes. The Germans decided, Fitzmaurice rushed from the room, burst into the Officers' Mess at Baldonnel. "Crack goes the whip, off go the horses, and round go the wheels at 5 o'clock!" he shouted. The report just received from the British Air Ministry said that almost ideal conditions might be expected...
...establish an altitude record of 19,000 feet. A few weeks later, she had kissed Sir James goodbye, embarked for Cape Town, South Africa, whence she quickly began to fly across all Africa toward London. If she succeeded, a new female flight record would be hers, but a rival, an "other woman" loomed...
Lady Sophie flew solo to Cairo. The race was hers. She had done the hard bit -vast veldt and jungle now lay in wait only for her rival. But, name of a dog, at the Cairo airdrome, where she stopped for supplies, officers padlocked her plane. It was not safe, they said, for a lady to cross the Mediterranean alone...
...girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower...