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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Cornell slashed its way to a 151/2 to 111/2 victory over the varsity fencing team Saturday at Ithaca in the Crimson's opening match of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Fencing Team Spoils Crimson Swordsmen's Debut | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Boasting record-breaking Sam Felton, who last Wednesday stretched the A.A.U. 35-pound weight throw by nine inches, Jonathan Spivak, and Don Trimble as their most promising bread-winners, Crimson athletes will enter the match with everything to gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Battle Northeastern, BU | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

...Puritans, who held a one-point advantage at halftime, waited until the last five minutes to break the deadlock. Jack Richards and Jim Powell then sank a total of six points to decide the match. Close guarding accounted for the low score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Five Stops Eliot To Wrest Intramural Lead | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...long they can keep up this carefree sauntering is problematical, for this weekend brings a doubleheader to the schedule, and the next four weeks will pit Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale against the swimmers. Tomorrow's meet should be the toughest match until Penn, for the Green holds a 4-2 record, having lost to Yale and Williams after topping its first four opponents. Saturday night will find Springfield in the pool at the Blockhouse...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

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