Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everts, winner of the affair last year and favorite to capture the title again this year, found the going difficult in yesterday's match, dropping the first set to the former Yale star and New England Intercollegiate singles champion by a score...
...hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes. He screamed. Still nobody came. Once in a while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
Scratch. In Seward, Neb., one Merle Burkholder dislocated his shoulder scratching a match...
...Gold Coaster's powerhouse took to the air yesterday afternoon to blow the Leverett Bunnies off the gridiron 33 to 0. Only Adam's victory over Eliot has been able to match this scoring spree so far in the House league. At the same time the Claverly Clippers turned back the Dudley shuffiers...
...adjoining field Jock Eliot, shifty runner for the Clippers ripped off two long runs in the first period for both scores. The Commuters, their ranks badly depleted of regulars were no match for the slashing, fighting Claverly team. Only Dudley score came on a blocked, and recovered kick late in the game...