Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hunt was staged to rival that put on by the Totem Pole ballroom, which recently concealed a number of miniature totem poles about the Yard with the promise that anyone finding them would be admitted free to the club...
...others as of perhaps the most lasting significance. That is the extraordinary rise of Harvard-Yale intramural competition during the past few-years. In 1933 the first annual intramural tackle championship game was fought with Yale. This proved so successful that several colleges made it a practice to challenge rival Houses, irrespective of their standing in the series. This year, for the first time, all seven Houses played Yale games; one in the regular championship series, and the others in the fast-becoming-traditional rivalries. Even touch football had its share of competition, as two full squads also played...
...make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once married to Massine's rival choreographer Georges Balanchine-dances with a gaiety and precision which belie the fact that, in her late 30s she is old for a ballerina...
...Warner) revives the hardheaded, soft-hearted old salt who, in her Satevepost exploits, bulldozes the boys around Tacoma's water front. Seasoned, frog-voiced Marjorie Rambeau puts on Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle, Annie's rival. Like all good skates on the screen, Annie builds herself a heap of trouble before she rescues the mortgage and gets the young folks (Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman) together for a happy ending. The result is passable, not irresistible...
...this one is to say that everything depends on the boys' mental and physical condition as they take the field. Harvard should prove superior of the ground, but she will have to beat of a dangerous aerial onslaught. The Crimson forward wall has the call over it's rival...