Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...there has never been a Yale eleven which has not put up a stronger fight against Harvard than in any game it has played all year, or that has stopped playing a fierce, aggressive, savage game until the whistle blows for time. Yale has never been an unworthy rival...
...opinion. The bandit Villa is in condition to cause considerable trouble when he considers it convenient to do so. Finally, General Salvador Alvarado, a self-avowed aspirant to the office of the Chief Executive and a notorious militarist, may yet prove a formidable opponent to General Obregon, his old rival under the late President Carranza. JAVIER'E. MOLINA...
...bunching its men and winning the second, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth places, the Providence Technology Institute easily defeated its nearest rival, Williston Academy, by 50 points, and won the annual Harvard Interscholastic cross-country Meet. Worcoster North High barely nosed out Wakefield High by one point for third place...
...races were all fairly close, but the brush between 1923 B and 1922 B and the struggle between the Smith and Standish crews were particularly interesting. 1923 B managed to nose out its rival by a quarter of a length, while Smith just edged over the line inches in front of Smith in 6 minutes and 1 second, the fastest time of the day. Neither 1923 A or 1923 C reported in time for the race, though the former turned out to pace University A for a mile. The 1922 eight easily took the race for first class crews, defeating...
...carefully arranged and conducted. Modern election days are no longer marvels of fraud and diplomatic violence; but modern campaigns are almost as disgusting in their methods as the fraud of the old time elections. If the present fashion calls for sarcasm, petty arguing and calling of names by rival candidates and rival newspapers, sly attacks in print, then perhaps a torch-light parade may be called old fashioned. At least men leave the daily papers by which the world of to-day is judged, fall into line and shout their opinions to the accompaniment of red fire and brass bands...