Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last great open shops in the U.S. Union leaders make no secret of their alarm. Douglas' attitude is direct, as usual. On his desk sits a small pottery model of a skunk, which many visitors instantly link mentally with the colloquial axiom: "Never get in a squirting match with a skunk." It is said that when visitors mention labor problems to him, he merely points at the skunk...
Yale's light blue kickers will invade Cambridge tomorrow for the climax of this year's intercollegiate soccer season: the annual Yale-Harvard game. The match will be held at Soldiers Field, starting at 3 o'clock...
...match was the climax of the entertainment presented to the V-12 Unit in its first smoker. Other minor bouts were on the card earlier in the program matching V-12ers against each other in both boxing and wrestling, while a novel note was introduced in the bout between a wrestler and a boxer...
...Jersey constitution, a hoary anachronism which gave Boss Hague plenty of room to spread his tentacles through the state even under an unfriendly governor. Revision won by 136,000 votes. Charles Edison, who entered New Jersey politics as an amateur, left the state with an achievement no professional could match: he had clipped Boss Hague's powers after a reign of 26 years...
...have dimmed the chances of Coach Jack MacDonald's Crimson booters for the crowning glory of a soccer season--a victory over Yale. A game against British cruiser teams headlines this week's schedule, while a Wednesday test with Brown will be the final warmup for Saturday's match...