Word: rival
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bouts Harvard and Brown enter as distinct favorites. The University wrestlers have for three consecutive years won the team championship and include two individual intercollegiate champions, C. C. Corson '28 and Joseph Lifrak '29 in their ranks. Brown, with three individual champions, will take to the mats a close rival for honors...
...Nationalist Government at Nanking has obtained as its Foreign Minister the able and versatile General Huang-Fu. Some five years ago he administered this same post with marked success for what is now the rival reactionary Government at Peking. Later the facile General served as Chinese envoy to Germany, and more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide...
...England agent for the Elcar is giving the other side too much of a chance to steal his thunder; the primary campaign in itself promises plenty of sound and fury; and if it becomes a business struggle, Governor Fuller has a tremendous lead for even his pugnacious rival to overcome...
...courses in prohibition seems to have lain dormant in recent years. Perhaps when the nation took up the subject it was thought unnecessary to continue the study in schools. At all events, if it is true, as reported, that unofficial dry agents moved for its continuance, their pessimism must rival that of the man who were both suspenders and belt...
...Commencement Day exercises have included many names that were to become famous. Scholars, historians, playwrights, statesmen, and even chief executives of the nation have thought it their first honor. Since 1642 Commencement Day parts have been spoken, a tradition that it is safe to say has no rival in the United States...