Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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With these formal forecasts by rival party leaders, the 1930 Congressional campaign moved into its last hot week. Biggest issue: The Slump. Chief Democratic argument: "Hoover hard times." Republican argument: No economic recovery under Democratic rule. The election's magic number...
city explain why this magnificent thoroughfare is as barren as a desert of trees, shrubbery, flowers or grass? With these embellishments Wilshire Boulevard would be without a rival among the capitals of the world. Is it the lack of water for irrigation purposes from which Los Angeles suffers that prevents greenery? In my admiration of this wonderful Boulevard I have often wondered why this absence of parking...
...initiating a love-affair with the best-looking female prisoner; 2) the escape of certain prisoners dressed as women, who get out to help a pal of theirs in trouble and come back as soon as their good deed is done. Only intentionally funny sequence-the baseball game between rival convict teams...
...Federation at present, with special emphasis being laid to unionization of the South. Progress is slow; opposition has taken a new turn. Where formerly labor had to contend with definite and sometimes brutal antagonism, now, according to Green, this antagonism is more subtle sometimes taking the form of rival or "company" unions, mands of the unions have strangled the New England textile industry in the face of low wage competition from the South, Green replied that the textile business was economically unsound at the time and that unorganized labor conditions in the South brought about wage cutting, price slashing...
...that must naturally ensue when Radcliffe, Smith, Beacon Street, and points east begin to tread the greensward of a weekend. Harvard, if a determined and persistent effort is made, will add a few rungs to the social ladder and in time,--who knows?--may even have house parties to rival its contemporaries. Yale and Princeton. Naturally, austere dignity is assured because they will be House-parties. Emphasis on the capital aids immeasurably. In fact, the Dunster House party of 1933 may even rival the Lowell House High Table...