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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Boston's Worst | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...basketball, Eliot meets Leverett, and Adams faces Dadley. Tonight's hockey matches will see Winthrop playing Kirkland, Eliot playing Adams, Dudley fighting Dunster, and Leverett facing Lowell. Tomorrow's basketball schedule will match Dunster with Lowell and Kirkland with Winthrop. The three-way duel Thursday night will present the following swimming meets: Adams, Dudley and Dunster; Eliot, Kirkland and Leverett; Lowell and Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Winter Sports Get Under Way Today | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Besides doing actual camouflage work on the models, the students study the science of blending colors to match season-changing landscape. They learn how to conceal the revealing crooks of rivers and ponds by anchoring floats on them or by covering the surface of the water with sawdust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Camouflage Course Offers Practical Training for War | 12/2/1942 | See Source »

...together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light of a lamp, the yellow interior of a church at night, the flame of a match. All reveal Artist Binford's understanding of Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sooty Palette | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Final four rankings are held by Dudley Palmer, ineligible during the year's playing season, Tom Baker, who won his Yale match 3-1, George Clay, and Cortland Parker. This completes eight of the nine spots on the team, and 25 or so hopefuls are trying to fit themselves into this last niche

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH TEAM LED BY FELT | 11/27/1942 | See Source »

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