Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world as a $50-a-week boxing instructor on the S. S. Franconia. Later he drifted into banking, peddled stocks in Manhattan and took up golf seriously, shot a 66. He started playing squash rackets in earnest and cleaned up tournaments around New York. Three years ago, when a match with hard-hitting John Doeg left him feeling wobbly, he threw away his racket and has never played since...
...Turks must have weighed these factors as carefully as the Germans did. If they would, the Turks could now give the Allies a flanking position in the east to match the western position in Italy. If they would, the Turks could rob the Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from...
...this summer Leary Constantine went to London to play in an all-star match between teams representing England and the Empire. With his wife, daughter, two friends and a secretary he registered at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square. Later that night, the manager told Leary Constantine, who is a Negro, that he would have to leave the hotel next day. The manager said he wanted to respect the wishes of visitors from...
Jack Lynch, Navy V-12 unit, was drowned champ of the summer session tennis' players Tuesday when he beat Robert Hunker of the Navy Supply Corps School in straight sets, 6-0, 6-4, 6-1. After losing the first set in his first match, Lynch went on to win 11 straight sets and take the tournament. Lynch won nine of the sets by scores better than 6-2, taking the other...
Lynch won his first match by default, then beat John Allen 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; G. C. Fuller 6-0, 6-0; Jack Fried 6-2, 6-0; and Thomas Mann 6-1, 6-0. He received a Red Cross certificate for his victories...