Word: match
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Irascible as Manhattan's bent and pleated bus-riders often are, they can never hope to match the irascibility of Fifth Avenue's ancient, turtle-blooded drivers and conductors...
...whip this week was an old crony-Australia's ambidextrous Jack Bromwich. Their games were unlike: Kramer is an enthusiastic big hitter, Bromwich is strictly a baseline hugger. Says Kramer: "I have the kind of game that can beat him if I am absolutely right." On their match would probably turn the Davis Cup of 1946. Experts agreed that none of the other three Americans-Frank Parker, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy-nor Australia's Adrian Quist, Dinny Pails and Newcomer Colin Long were any match for the Jacks...
...back a generation. It is a growth in the application of law that any student of our common law should recognize as natural and proper, for it is just in this manner that the common law grew up. All case law grows by new decisions, and where those decisions match the conscience of the community, they are law as truly as the law of murder...
...phrase in Stimson's argument seemed to be "the conscience of the community." Did this conscience, in fact, match Nürnberg's law? The existence of treaties did not prove that the answer was yes. Convincing proof would come only if nations behaved consistently in accordance with the principles of conscience which Nürnberg assumed...
...sort of hero in Australia. Amazed that he had been taking daily insulin since he was ten, admiring Australians showered him with fan letters, flocked to watch him practice, wondered how he did it. He figured exercise was good for him (burned up the sugar). One time during a match he suffered an insulin reaction, popped a sweet into his mouth, went on playing...