Word: match
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise widows' payments; 3) start payments in 1940 instead of 1942; 4) increase payments to workers who leave employment early (before 60). In the old-age grant section, the Senate provided that the U. S. should contribute $10 for the first $5 put up by a State, match dollars thereafter, thus assuring a total grant of $25 per month for needy oldsters in States willing to give $10, a maximum of $40 in States giving $17.50. This plan's author was Senator Connally of Texas. Colorado's Johnson got it further provided that no Federal money...
Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Cause of the squabble was Densmore Shute, two-time (1936-37) winner of the tournament and one of the best match players in the world, who was refused permission to tee up his ball on opening day because his P.G.A. dues ($35) were 48 hours late in reaching the Association's secretary. Whereupon 50 of his colleagues -mostly box-office headliners-refused to play, held up the tournament for two hours while officials and players wrangled...
Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan...