Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom have two so evenly matched opponents been put up against each other. Both are independently wealthy. To match the proud name of Saltonstall, Putnam is descended from the Lowells on both his father's and his mother's sides. Putnam has six children; Saltonstall, five. Like his longtime acquaintance the Governor, Springfield's mayor is a product of Back Bay boyhood, Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school, of Harvard (where Saltonstall starred as an athlete, Putnam as a magna cum laude) and of Harvard's best social clubs (Hasty Pudding...
...from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis match in hell." Thrown back when they tried to regain a foothold on Guadalcanal Island, the Japanese were trapped by a counterattacking flanking force, the sea at their rear and U.S. forces covering the Tenaru river (see cut, p. 34). When U.S. tanks attacked, there was nothing for the Japs...
Jaakko is looking to the incoming Freshmen for depth to back up this nucleus, as well as to last year's reserves and Freshmen. Besides depth, he is looking for runners who can match the best that the opposing teams will throw at him. For this year's schedule includes the strongest teams that Harvard cross country squads have met in years...
...sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum are played in pitches and rhythms to match the language...
...workers will soon match for cokes with a new kind of nickel. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau last week told the Philadelphia mint to get going on new U.S. 5? pieces containing 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese-but no nickel. The current Jefferson head-and-home design will not be changed. Present coins are 25% nickel-75% copper, and the switch to new alloys will save about 850 tons of nickel and copper annually...