Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champion Puritans of Winthrop had an evening off but will take the ice against the Yale College leaders in a match at the Boston Skating Club today at 2 o'clock...
Rated a sorrowful underdog, the Varsity Squash team, played a surprisingly close match at New Haven Saturday, but lost to the Blue by a score of 6 to 3. With the squad's four best men dropping out earlier in the season, the team came unexpectedly close to beating one of the best teams that Yale has produced in the last few years...
Alone, these forces would be no match for the Japanese, and Conrad Helfrich knew it. To cut up Japan's sea lines before they could be knitted right around the Indies, he counted on: 1) maximum support from the U.S. and British Pacific fleets; 2) the effectiveness of his own hit-&-run offensive...
...Batavia last week, before returning home to Australia to report for further duty, tough, brusque Henry Gordon Bennett told a story that was anything but pretty. He and his men held out "until the last moment," were no match for "lack of water, incessant bombing and greatly superior numbers." Two hospitals had only enough water to last another 24 hours. Bombings were so violent that of one group of 400 Australians only 14 men were left after a three-day attack. The enemy's numerical superiority needed no amplification. No matter how often told, or by whom related...
...quietly past them." Conscious of their civic duties, the postman and policeman turned back in time to be thrown into the local jail. "The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away. ..." Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper, had donated a lunch, targets, cartridges and prizes for a shooting match six miles back in the hills in a pretty glade that he owned. The local troops, "big, loose-hung boys" (a hallmark of Steinbeck heroes), saw the planes and parachutes and ran back to town in time to be machine-gunned. That ended the first phase of the invasion...