Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least one 35,000-ton battleship (probably the Littorio), with 15-in. guns; the Trento and the Trieste, heavy cruisers with 8-in. guns; three or four light, 6-in.-gun cruisers of the Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...practical side, a famed forerunner of modern design was the ironclad Maine (6,682 tons), ugly and awkward but formidably armed for her day (four 10-and six 6-inchers), but no match for the mine that took her in Havana harbor. U.S.S. North Dakota was another step to today, with 20,000-ton displacement, ten 12-inchers, fourteen 5-inchers...
Dropping but one of their thirteen games, the Deacons of Kirkland won the House volleyball championship yesterday afternoon when they beat Dunster by default to make a clean sweep of the league. Lowell and Adams tied for second, each winning five matches and losing two. There were three games to each match...
Everts, the first man to win the University tournament as a Freshman since the days of Dave Burt, did not play tennis last year on his Freshman team, but preferred to play baseball. He has an almost flawless game, however, and can be considered an equal match for anyone in collegiate tennis circies today...
...deny, but they have nowhere near the importance for opera that they would for spoken drama. Opera's source, and its principal excuse for existence, is the wonderful physical satisfaction of hearing a well-trained human voice, an appeal not basically different from that of a good, boxing match or track meet, which, of course, is no argument for opera's artistic value, but a very good one for its continued existence despite changing fashions in theatre and musical styles. Whether a person likes opera or not is largely a matter of temperament, and condemning it for its theatrical shortcomings...