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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon the Varsity will meet a team from General Headquarters of the First Corps Area and tomorrow will travel to Providence to finish its schedule for the week with a contest with Brown. Today's match will start at 4 and the one against the Bruins at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Beats Devens | 7/17/1942 | See Source »

...Varsity baseball team travels to Fort Devens this afternoon to meet those Army boys in a return match and the advance rumors indicate they will bat against the touted Waish himself this time. Floyd Stahl will probably depend on Bill Hoftyzer, who proved so effective against the soldiers in his first Varsity start a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINE MAY FACE DEVENS PITCHING ACE | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...substance of last week's battle reports, from both Berlin and Moscow, was that the Red Army, not only in local sectors but on the entire front where the decisive battles were fought, lacked the planes, tanks, guns to match the German onslaught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hitler is Winning | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

When the A.E.F. began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yanks v. Diggers | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

When Hays led his civil-liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Underdog Fancier | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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