Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
Late last year, London Records found its German-language recording selling like hot cakes, decided it would sell even faster in English. Lyricist Malia Rosa, who is also May Singhi ("Ukulele Lady") Breen and Mrs. Peter (Deep Purple) De Rose, thought up simple words to match the simple tune ("Forever and ever, My heart will be true," etc.). Gracie Fields recorded it first, then Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, and within days it was a hit. Malia Rosa's explanation: "It's down to earth; it reeks with sincerity...
Leverett's tennis team played off a forfeited match with the "champion" Winthrop squad and took over the championship itself by winning...
...Pennsylvania match should be fairly close with the crimson being the slight favorite. Pennsylvania has never been a strong power in tennis...
...Williams match the main feature of the event should be the number one doubles match. The Williams doubles team of Ephriam Tutt and Charlie Johnson won the New England intercollegiate title in last Saturday's matches. Bud Ager and Ted Bullard, Harvard's first doubles counterparts have led the Crimson through two successful seasons...