Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only just opened. He figured his crew could be "about four lengths faster a month from now," since in spring practice Harvard had only managed to log 180 miles. By contrast, Cambridge, in the racing pink, Had logged practice spins of about 850 miles, had defeated its traditional rival Oxford by 15 lengths, then whipped Yale a fortnight ago by four lengths (TIME, April 23). Said confident Cambridge Coach Harold Rickett: "We'll never be any better than...
Kirkland House seems to be headed for its second straight Straus Trophy according to the latest intramural standings. Last year's champions are 100 points ahead of their nearest rival, Eliot, now that the results of all the fall and winter intramural sports have been totalled...
...other four positions are still being hotly contested--right field and third base. Bob Smith, who is currently patrolling the right pasture, is more of a punch hitter than his rival, Ralph Robinson, but still lacks polish. In the fight for third base, Kevin Reilly is leading Hank Young and, after a fine performance against the Middies, he seems fairly well entrenched...
...newspapers compete for the college leadership and the Northampton advertising market. "Scan" publishes twice weekly while the rival "Current," which went into business three years ago, comes out once a week. Students generally read both and favor the one their friends work for, "Current" runs an occasional feature but "Scan" gets more fresh news, has more original ideas, is better written, and certainly is more informative to the visiting reader than its competitor. Both papers ostensibly enjoy the competition but secretly wish their opponent would quit because there isn't enough advertising in the Smith community to feed two papers...
...little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...