Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Department to endanger its $15,000,000 investment in Garands, he was soon disillusioned. Reluctantly, under conditions which prohibited any positive test, the Army last week pitted six Garands (fired in relays so that no single gun took the gaff) against two of Melvyn Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatics...
Since 1919, he has elected five Governors. The last one was the incumbent, A. Harry Moore. Moore's Republican rival in 1937, Clergyman Lester H. Clee, carried 15 of Jersey's 21 counties. But when Hudson's poll was reported, Hague's Moore was found to have won by 45,266 votes. In vain did Pastor Clee charge that the Hudson vote was fraudulent. Ballot boxes were straightway locked up, Hague-controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge...
Porched safely atop the standing with six consecutive victories, the last gained over its closest rival, Columbia, Cornell now faces the opportunity of practically clinching the crown a month before the campaign ends. All it needs is victories in the two double headers scheduled for it this week--with Princeton at Tigertown today and with Yale at Ithaca on Saturday. Triumphs in all four of these games will mean that only Dartmouth will have a chance to overhaul the Ithacans...
...this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first nine games, the assorted collection of castoffs and come-ups assembled by President Larry MacPhail and Manager Leo Durocher proved that they are a clicking machine...
...studio were a little ashamed of it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It rattles pleasantly enough down its well-worn groove, lubricated by a flow of bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver as a jut-jawed naval commander, David Tree as his lovesick rival. But it is chiefly notable as a demonstration of what eye-rolling Ellen Drew and eyebrow-lifting Ray Milland can be made to do by a capable director-Anthony Asquith, who co-directed Pygmalion...