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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eastern champion Ted Norris couldn't quite match Bill Heusner of Northwestern or Ralph Sala of Stanford in the 1500-meter freestyle race last night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the twenty-sixth annual National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norris Takes 3rd Place in National 1500-Meter Test | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...House champion. At 145 Tom Butler of Dunster is the favorite, at 165 Hugh Smith of Winthrop leads the pack, and at 175 George McNear of Kirkland is favored. McNear won the unlimited title in the House tourney, but was able to make the weight at 175 for this match. Footballer Phil Isenberg, House winner at 175 pounds, is not competing. Isenberg won the title by a TKO last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 27 Boxers to Compete for University Championships | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

...last intramural playoff with Yale Saturday, the Calhoun College squash team defeated Lowell, 4 to 1, in New Haven. Number one man Bill Lawrence, the only Bellboy to win his match, defeated Dick Beach, 3-love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell 5 Beats Yale Champs, 39-38 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...possible carrier of hog cholera) was urged to stay away from hogs for at least 19 days. ¶ Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days 18 hrs. 14 min.) set by the steamboat Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Prudent Husband. Britain is now trying to buy most of what she needs from the sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Austerity v. Beneluxury | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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