Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light of a match held to a long black cigar-a cherubic face in the gap between a black Homburg and a dark business suit...
...battling in Spitfires mainly because Britain has plenty of efficient fighter planes, and that the economical thing to do was to put U.S. pilots in those planes. But it is also true (and more revealing) that the U.S. now has no fighter plane, thoroughly proven in combat, which can match the Spitfire...
Roaring along in high gear, and with a five game winning streak to show for it. Coach Stahl's nine young men move into Providence today to match base hits with a Brown team in the second and last inter-collegiate game of the summer season...
After early season ups and downs, the Crimson has developed an attack to match Berg's consistently fine and sometimes spectacular work on the mound. Provided that the poor batting background at Brown's Aldrich Field doesn't throw their timing off, the Harvard line-up should keep hurler Nichols and the Bruin outfielders hustling this afternoon
Lesson from Greece. World War II has proved that only specialist troops can fight skillfully in the mountains. In Norway, British mechanized outfits were no match for Germany's mountain men. Greek mountain troops made life miserable for the Italian invaders until German experts arrived. Today Germany has some 15 mountain divisions; probably a tenth of all Axis soldiers have been trained to fight in the hills...