Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third fortress, Suez, was secure so long as British sea power held the eastern Mediterranean, so long as Italy was stalled in Egypt, so long as Russia kept Germany out of the Near East via Turkey. The Russians, another inland horde, were choosing not to help their rival horde, were biding the time (maybe many years hence) when they would be the challenging power...
...worst mistake in business was made in 1928, when he tried to buck the Berry brothers, William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
...quiz shows, many a program expert has strained mightily to vary the monotony of the question and answer formula. Strange product of this striving is the NBC show, Truth or Consequences, through which Procter & Gamble plugs Ivory Soap. Based on the oldtime parlor game, Truth or Consequences differs from rival questionnaires in that it penalizes participants who are baffled by its queries. Boisterous, rowdy, full of custard-pie humor, the program last week was hard on the heels of top-rating quiz show Information Please...
...Madison, Wis., Minnesota's Golden Gophers (only team to beat Harmon & Co. this year) completed an undefeated, untied season with a 22-to-13 victory over their old rival, Wisconsin. In addition to the well-deserved championship of the Big Ten, Minnesota will probably be awarded the mythical national championship...
...platitude honors, only rival to B. C. the biographer is B. C. the aphorist. Last week, in one 400-word column on how to be successful, he dropped one dozen mottoes, including "Pride prejudices . . . Conceit begets coldness . . . Selfishness shrivels sympathy . . . Almightiness kills admiration. . . ." He also cited Kettering, Owen Young, Willkie, Lincoln to prove that "radiators of happiness . . . multiply contracts as well as contacts...