Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head the N.F.A.S. the ship operators chose ruddy, suave, Almon E. Roth, 57, known in West Coast shipping circles as one employers' representative who could match brains with razor-witted Longshoreman, Harry Bridges. Roth, as president ot the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast, struggled with Bridges, but was finally instrumental in settling the paralyzing shipping strike...
...Yale has ever had is a junior who is almost stone blind. Last week 165-lb. Bob Russell stalked his Columbia opponent by the sound of his footsteps, pinned him in 5 min., 42 sec. with a reverse body lock and nelson. It was Russell's first intercollegiate match...
...Spirit. Tojo spoke not in desperation but from knowledge of his people, their obedience, credulity, imperturbability in the face of hardship. Japan's soldiers, peasants and factory workers expect to win the war; their trump is Yamato Damashii, the "unquenchable spiritual force" of the Japanese people which must match the earthier power of the U.S.'s bigger guns, faster planes, heavier ships. They know Japan has conquered a rich empire, believe that the peoples of East Asia are united against the Western powers. Few of them seriously doubt the extravagant claims of continued victories, because they have...
...year wrestling match (in one corner, Oxford's short, spike-bearded, self-assured Sir William Alexander Craigie; in the other, American speech) reached its final bell last week. "Wullie" Craigie had at last finished his Dictionary of American English on Historial Principles, from Volume I's A (New England's brand letter for adulteresses) to the new Volume IV's ZuZu (nickname for the Civil War Zouaves...
...next Varsity clash will be a return match with Camp Thomas this Saturday night and will be held at home. The soldiers won the first encounter between the two teams...