Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members to the rolls; 5) to obligate the Government to match States dollar for dollar up to $20 per month for old-age pensions; 6) sharply to limit the size of the old-age reserve account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal...
...Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final...
Secretary Hull demurred: surely the Senator did not propose to match his sources of intelligence with those of the U. S. State Department? The lion of Idaho, who has never been abroad, denied this implication-but now came a fresh interruption...
...State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments that annually serve as a showcase for U. S. tennis talent...
What ensued was a pull-devil-pull-baker-final whose drama was enlivened by balls bouncing off spectators' legs, jumping stymies, hitting flagpoles and miraculously falling into cups. On the 36th green, the match was still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently...