Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Open championship (in 1939), he cheerfully assured his hosts that there were at least two better golfers in Britain than he. Just 54 hours after getting off the ship, 38-year-old Dick Burton teed off at Boston's Charles River Country Club in a 36-hole match against Byron Nelson, the big wheel of U.S. golf...
Only two intercollegiate matches marked the roster of the tennis team's first post-war season; Dartmouth whitewashed the Crimson squad 9-0 at Hanover, while Tufts bowed 3-0 in a match that was unfinished because of rain. An asertment of five nearby prep and high schools were taken over by the Crimson racquetmen during the season...
...Dark Corner (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of Hollywood marriage of Laura (epigrams and lethal whams) and Murder, My Sweet (thugs, drugs and hugs). The alliance is not a perfect match...
Trygve Lie, idle-hour moose-hunter and tennist, improved a rare idle hour with a doubles match at Forest Hills, L.I. U.N.'s burly Secretary General made a stout try (see cut), but the opposition carried more weight. Score over Lie & partner...
...central clearing houses in each state to match schools and students, funnel part of the overflow into junior and teachers' colleges...