Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service men could not definitely reschedule the contest before this morning, but indicated that tomorrow would be the likeliest date, with this afternoon as an alternative. If the game is played this week, it will have to be assimilated into a series including a return match with Fort Devens Wednesday, General Headquarters of the First Corps Area on Friday, and Brown on Saturday...
...Woman. In smart sets from Santa Barbara to Long Island, "Louie" Macy is popular. She radiates good spirits, talks well, laughs easily. At 36 she is trim as an athlete. She dresses with elegant plainness -sometimes in colors to match a ginger-brown French poodle which she leads on a pink patent-leather leash. Her dark hair falls in a long bob; her eyes are bright blue, a little gap between two front teeth emphasizes her firm chin and nose...
After this contest the Varsity will enjoy a respite over the weekend unless a match with some team in the Suburban League can be arranged for Saturday. Next week's schedule, however, calls for three games, two of them away from home...
From England, where pictures of the younger generation at play are rare these days, came two substitutes, rare in their own way: a shot of grizzle-bearded, 50-year-old Philosopher C. E. M. Joad giving his portly all in a London field-hockey match; a shot of 63-year-old Lady Nancy Astor footing it featly at the opening of bomb-blasted Plymouth's summer season...
...pilots to fly those planes was another matter. The Army Air Forces vowed that its training program was geared to match the plane output. But the factories were now outstripping the schools. Planes were built faster than the Flying Training Command could create crews...