Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affirmative against Amherst on the subject, "Resolved: That the Economic prosperity of the United States is unfavorable to its morals", in Paine Hall on the evening of December 8. The negative Harvard team was to have gone to Vassar at this time, but the team from Poughkeepsie forfeited the match...
...Harvard and Yale Gun Clubs will match their skill on the range at West Haven, Conecticut, this morning in the annual shoot. The method of scoring will be that of adding the five high scores of each team...
...Orchestre Symphonique gave Arthur Honegger's Rugby a successful première. In the U. S., Composer Honegger is famed for his Pacific 231 through which he sniffs and snorts to resemble a giant locomotive. His Rugby, long heralded, is a sound picture of a football match in which smart, broken rhythms tell the struggle of the players, the excitement of the crowd...
Because there lives in Italy today a poet who can make plays to match his music; because Italo Montemezzi sniffed the music in the lines, caught the magic of the mood and translated it for an orchestra; because tragedy melts easily into the rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance...
Alice Joyce gave a good show, perhaps the best job that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...