Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
While the Board heard the evidence for its first important decision, OPA economists sweated to match prices still under control to the new formulas written by Congress. The slide-rule answers nearly always meant that prices went up a little bit here, a little more there. On a few typical days last week OPA hiked ceilings on autos (7%), cotton textiles (7%), kid leather (30%), sofas (6%), hot-water bottles (10%), oilcloth (13½%), enamel kitchen utensils (5%). Off went ceilings on window washing, contract janitorial service, sour cherries and imported food specialties...
...Transamerica Corp., aging A.P. Giannini's vast holding company, had offered him and his colleagues. (Transamerica's deadpan explanation: "It has very good earnings and it is a well-managed company. We want the stock for an investment.") National, according to an agreement, has the right to match this offer...
Forcing the play throughout the match, Fox used his booming service and a powerful forehand drive from the baseline to subdue his younger opponent with little trouble. Only once in the entire match was Brady able to win a game on his own service, while Fox's supremacy was threatened only in the early stages of the second set when the Freshman ace battled on even terms for the first four games...
...singles player for Coach Bob Ashley's Varsity netman this summer, advanced to the final round by virtue of a minor upset of Lane McGovern in a hectic three-set struggle, 4-6, 11-9, 6-3. At one time in the long second set McGovern was at match point, but Brady fought off the threat and subdued his higher-seeded rival...