Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not have you think for a single minute that there is permanent disaster in these Drought regions, or that the picture I saw meant depopulating these areas. No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers and stockmen and their wives and children...
After five days of play, Perry, Budge, Grant, Parker, Mangin, Wood and Riggs reached the fourth round safely. In the match to determine the quarter-finalists, however, Riggs had the misfortune to play John Van Ryn, onetime Davis Cup player. Unseeded and unranked because of insufficient play, Riggs was eliminated...
...trick is to ignite the match without call-ing it to the attention of the victim. That is where Jack's cigar comes in. Striking a match to ignite the "hot foot" would make a noise...
...match burns quietly down...
Engaged. Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, 21, niece of Denmark's Christian X and Norway's Haakon VII, second cousin of Edward VIII; and Count Luitpold zu Castell-Castell of Bavaria, 31; in Copenhagen. Palace gossip had reported her a possible match for Edward VIII...