Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...other down like rows of toy soldiers. Though Bari on the Adriatic was shaken by severe tremors and many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues and block after block of modern sanitary dwellings which with cracked plaster and sprung roofs were still safely standing last week...
...this list Los Angeles jumped from tenth to fifth place; many a rival pair of cities switched places, as: Boston and Baltimore, Buffalo and San Francisco, Seattle and Indianapolis...
...Dawn Patrol (First National). People who are amused at the way rival producers imitate each other's masterpieces, do not always realize the salutary effect of this convention of plagiarism on the industry at large. Undoubtedly The Dawn Patrol was influenced, even frankly inspired, by Journey's End. Undoubtedly also it is a better picture, because its devisers have stuck to their model, than it would have been if they had depended on independent inspiration. It is a War picture dealing with aviators, but the usual framework of such efforts has been drawn into a tense believable story...
...every confidence that Mr. Dwight W. Morrow will be the next Senator. ..." This, the President's first official recognition of a candidate, certified Mr. Morrow as the first Senate nominee of national stature. Suspicious observers suggested that. President Hoover, perceiving in popular Mr. Morrow a potential ally if not rival, had the 1932 Presidential election in mind with his felicitations. The quizzically Democratic Baltimore Sun said: "Without knowing anything about it one might easily assume that Mr. Hoover has merely made an appropriate gesture toward a fellow tycoon. Whatever the ocular relation between a cat and a king...
...acquired (for a rumored eight or ten million dollars) James S. Kirk & Co., manufacturers of Jap Rose soap, oldtime Procter & Gamble rival in the Chicago area, an ancient & honored Chicago industry which (until last week) was still controlled by the descendants of the original James S. Kirk who founded it in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, took it to Chicago two decades later...