Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...
...lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about $18,000] and gone into the water," said Rocky righteously...
Except for the Lindbergh case, in which Irey got Hauptmann by tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
...varsity rifle team will compete in a triangular match with sharpshooters from MIT and Maryland this afternoon. The contest will be held at the MIT range...
Andre Sigourney will probably will one of these vacancies but Jordan isn't worrying about such matters at this point. He hasn't held final tryouts yet for next Saturday's match at Tech because his men are still not in top physical condition and he isn't sure at what weights some of his top athletes will wrestle...