Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most limited in its schedule possibilities is the tennis team, which as yet has only scheduled a match at Andover on May 27. Because the season between good tennis weather and the reading period only runs a bit over a month, a short schedule is required. Rumors have been heard at the H. A. A. of five men with USLTA ratings in the civilian Houses...
...President's two 'meetings with the press were not lively. Nobody brought up the subject of paper matches. Hearstling Bob Considine had written in a feature series that the President "won't permit three cigarets to be lighted on one match." Next day WPB asked the U.S. to save paper, forget this superstition...
Vassar has challenged the Harvard Debating Council to a duel of words for this spring, and a match with the renowned women's college will probably be held around Easter time, officials of the club announced last night. Plans are also being made to continue the annual triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debating series...
...poorest showing of all was made in steel. Caught between the pincers of rising costs and prices frozen at 1941 levels, profits of the ten top companies dropped, failing by a round $5,000,000 to match those of 1942. Ominously, much of the drop came in the last quarter, causing steel men to take a morose look at current earnings and cross their fingers that OPA will grant requested steel price increases...
...Cinema, airminded Multimillionaire Howard (The Outlaw) Hughes (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) and gadget-brained Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges (TIME, Feb. 14), announced their cinemanschluss. A new studio was born. Hollywood braced itself for the sort of thing that happens when hydrogen and a match flame meet...