Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the basic attempt to meet settlement-house demand for an endless stream of day-to-day workers, holiday occasions call for gestures to match. Last night was Halloween: PBH whipped up a special corps of 30 men to fan out into key houses and organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played...
Bombois drifted to Paris, married, and found work as a printer's helper. His brother-in-law, who was a watchman at the Louvre, kept urging him to drop over and have a look at the paintings. That was one match he didn't lose deliberately. "Finally I did," says Bombois, "but those guys were too big for me. I've never gone back there...
...seniors. Designed to bring the foundation knowledge of the first three college years into sharp focus on the great national and international problems of the world. Great Issues offers lecturers like Archibald MacLeish. Lewis Mumford, and President Conant. It gives the men of Dartmouth a common cultural experience to match the enthusiastic social solidarity fostered by for years of living and working together in Hanover...
...illustrations show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
Last year, the Varsity tennis squad got off to an Inauspicious start in its postwar revival by salvaging only two victories in a nine match season, but coach Jack Barnaby '32 attributes this debacle to a combination of circumstances rather than any lack of potential talent among his charges...