Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rifles proved too accurate for Crimson marksmen in the postal match fired two weeks ago, according to scores just obtained from the central office of the New England Rifle Association...
...shine all the time in Cambridge and the Square may not match Hollywood and Vine, but cinema magnates after a short visit this weekend have their eye on the Yard for a "location" rendition of Helen Howe's "We Happy...
...plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
...nothing for ourselves except reciprocal fair play. . . . Our 'reply to the world' is a challenge to match us in good works." The Senator paid a parting tribute to Jimmy Byrnes: "I salute him with affection and profound respect; [he] has been an able, efficient, courageous Secretary of State in the finest American tradition...
...long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...