Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican Revolution in 1914 lured him across the Rio Grande on Pancho Villa's side; but he heard of the war in Europe, walked 300 miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became the youngest brigadier in the British Army at 27, and during the war performed several exploits almost as fantastically courageous as the Gallipoli swim. Between wars he stayed in the Army, and in 1939 was given command of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In Greece...
...there in 1805 that Andrew Jackson sponsored one of the greatest match races of all time: his Truxton v. Lazarus Cotton's Greyhound, with cane-shaking partisans wagering their tobacco crops, stables and plantations on the outcome. It was there in 1843 that Nashville's gentry staged the $35,000 Peyton Produce Stakes, up to that time the world's richest horse race and the forerunner of America's "Futurities" (race in which competitors, now usually two-year-olds, are nominated at birth or before...
...Oakie, who is beginning to look more and more like an American Indian, easily walks off with The Great American Broadcast. That is no feat. One tuneful ditty, I Take to You, some tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...
Varsity Golf--Intersectional play-offs at Stamford, Conn., and Championship Match...
...races this year the Crimson and Tech have each defeated the other by a margin of two feet, so that tomorrow's tilt will serve as a rubber match for the two. In addition, Harvard was hard pressed to beat Princeton by four feet last weekend, and at the same time Penn came within two feet of upsetting the Engineers. Only Columbia seems out of the running...