Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Margesson was satisfied. Fum bling in the dark for the door's handle, he soon discovered that there was no inside handle. The Captain heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work...
...against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come on, pull yourself together," Hoppe won match after match. With his 16th straight win he clinched the title, but still he clicked on. When the play ended Hoppe had suffered no defeats, amassed a record sweep of 20 victories, set a new average of 1. 1 6 1 points per inning...
...burned at the stake, he saved his life by a Yankee trick. Knowing that a solar eclipse was imminent, he predicted the end of the world, got himself a saving reputation as a magician. Last week, with another solar eclipse imminent (April 7), another court scratched a match, lit a fagot for the Yankee from Connecticut. This time it was the Connecticut Public Welfare Council, which proclaimed: "The typical Yankee seems to be disappearing from the Connecticut scene." According to the Council, returns of the 1940 census will prove that immigrants now work Connecticut's farms, that there...
Bringing to a very satisfactory close a successful season, the rifle team became champions of the New England College Rifle League by leading nine other teams in a match at New London, Connecticut, on March 29. Harvard garnered 1349 piints, Yale got 1384, Norwich 1322, and Northeastern tied M. I. T. with...
...free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this thing can broadcast silence...