Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
...Slammin' Sam Snead: the match play championship of the Professional Golfers' Association, only national golf title attainable this year; defeating U.S. Army Corporal Jimmy Turnesa, youngest of the six Turnesa pros, 2 and 1 in the final; at the Seaview Country Club, near Atlantic City. Though Snead is considered the best shotmaker since Bobby Jones, this is his first national golf title. This week he enters the Navy...
Both Captain Lou Clay and first-baseman Ned Fitzgibbons are expected back in the starting lineup, after missing the first Yale match last weekend because of illness. With these heavy batters ready again the Eli hurlers may expect even greater worries than they encountered at Sew Haven...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration today is a monument to 23 successful years' direction by Dean Wallace Brett Donham. It can count a faculty to match its impressive buildings, a business library second to none, an enrollment of over 1,000 U.S. businessmen-to-be. Most other business schools, including the famed London School of Economics, have patterned themselves on Dean Donham's model...
...match marred by poor playing conditions, Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity Tennis team closed out a mediocre season last Saturday afternoon by losing to a powerful Yale squad, 8 to 1. Hugh Hyde and Lin Burton garnered the only point for Harvard, taking the last doubles contest from the Bulldogs...