Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upon, and didn't care if they showed it. The Justice Department had first twisted A.P.'s arm with an antitrust suit; then in June the Supreme Court had twisted it even further. Said the Court sternly: nobody must be denied A.P. membership just because a local rival fears the competition...
...Chicago Tribune's newsprint Napoleon, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who had done most to blackball Marshall Field's rival Sun three and a half years ago, when the A.P. turned Field down, more than 2-to-1. Last week it was Colonel McCormick who did most to get Field in.* Bertie McCormick made it clear he was lumping it, but not liking...
...headlines of rival papers played a game of 'tis-'tain't. One day last week Hearst's New York Journal-American proclaimed: SAY HULL EDICT DECIDED JAPS
...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...
...grill, over their "peanut betweens" and "Garbo with jams" (English muffins with jam), Exonians last week had two distressing subjects to chew over. They had just lost, 7-to-18, the Big Game with rival Andover, 28 miles away. And their headmaster, tweedy, well-loved Lewis Perry, 68, who had long talked of quitting, had now made it official...