Word: match
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Gone are the dormitory room popcorn poppers of the 1970s, even the mini microwave ovens of the '80s. Students these days are demanding serious meals to match their serious 18-hour workdays...
...when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The 1875 competition--which was in reality more a rugby match than anything else--was actually not the beginning of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. That had begun more than two decades earlier with crew. No helmets or equipment were worn--the teams wore hats, knickers and britches for uniforms. The game was not played in the first year of so-called...
...Saturday morning, Sherwood "Woody" McClelland '00 will be duking it out with Yale already--on the chess board. McClelland, the president of the Harvard Chess Club, and accredited "Life Master," will lead the Crimson as they vie for their eighth straight victory in as many years in The Chess Match. The match was first staged in 1909 and held discontinuously until 1986, at which point the teams deemed the rivalry worth renewing on an annual basis...
...finals match was the culmination of a run that included a pin of Quaker Brett Vanderveer in forty-three seconds and an 11-10 victory in the semi-finals over Cornell's Dean Doyle...
...were the best conditioned team there," said Weiss. "We showed that we match up well with the top two teams [Penn and Cornell...