Word: match
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...Russian success, confident that Germany was losing the war. We are still confident that we are going to win it in the distant future, but it was clear from yesterday's newsstands that we are not winning it now. The cold, undernourished, under-equipped, demoralized Germans are still a match for the Russians. They are strong enough to take Sevastopol; they may be strong enough to retake Kharkov and the gateway to the Caucasus and oil. While the Reds have stopped the strongest that Hitler has sent against them, the converse is also true...
...even the 50,000 who went last year, the 10,000 who succeeded in getting to the Heath last week were a cozy little standful. Women, crowding around the Royal Enclosure, had a chance to gawk at the Queen's pale lavender costume, with hat and shoes to match. In the paddock, folks got a good look at the King, noted his more than usual good humor. For the first time in the history of British horse racing, the Royal Stables were on the verge of winning all four of England's classic races for three-year-olds...
Last week Joe Louis began a series of exhibition boxing matches for the Army Emergency Relief Fund. He hopes they will serve as tune-ups for a September match-for his own benefit. But U.S. Army officials may decide against...
Charles Townsend Copeland's method of teaching English composition was once described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch-can wrestling match." Anyone who interested him was entitled to enjoy "Copey's" friendship and genius. Once or twice every year Copeland still gives a reading to the Freshman class, a highlight in the student's first year at Harvard...