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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Rene Peroy's fencers lost their first team match of the season against the Loomis foil, epee, and saber artists. Freshman Capt. Roland Gaeta provided the single achievement of the afternoon by taking all three of his foil matches. Most of the Freshman strength was centered in the foil and epee matches, where 10 of the 12 Yardling points were scored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Basketball Squad Victorious Twice As Fencers, Swimmers Lose to Loomis, Exeter | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

Undefeated Pennsylvania yesterday wiped out any glory the Varsity wrestling team may have experience by detesting Columbia Saturday when they drew the Crimson over the coals with a 24-0 shutout. Earlier on the weekend schedule the Varsity had downed the Lions in the final heavyweight match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS SHUT OUT BY PENN 34-0; DEFEAT COLUMBIA 19-15 | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...dead city. The people wandered dully through the streets, prodded on by the bayonets of Jap sentries in civilian clothes. Food and money were scarce. The only stores still open were Japanese bazaars. A package of rice which once cost a nickel now cost 25?. A single match sold for 15 centavos (7½?). Trolleys and a single bus line were still running. But except for these and the dozen arrogant, sleek cars of Japanese officials and their friends, the streets were bare of traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Order in Manila | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...wrote Reporter Lee, "he volunteered to burn the enemy-held town of Samal. He crawled through the Japanese lines before dawn with five gallons of gasoline and walked behind the shacks where the Japanese were sleeping. He sprinkled the gasoline, threw a lighted match and fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: One-Man Blitz | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Feature events on the domestic scene will be two Varsity basketball games, two Varsity hockey games, and a wrestling match. Also in action will be Freshman teams in swimming, wrestling, and basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Faces Full Sport Weekend | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

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