Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living under strict wage and price controls, 50 pfennig is still 50 pfennig. The woman bent down, and in the darkness groped for the lost coin. She could not find it. The conductor could not find it either. Then a Polish soldier came over to help out with a match. But the match burned down before they found the coin. The soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece, and with a smile handed it to the woman. The smoldering...
...reason for his Tribune's success is that McCormick has simply made it indispensable. No paper in all Chicagoland can match its overwhelming coverage of the news. When a big story breaks, the Trib can throw a score of men on it to outreport and outwrite the opposition. In sports, in comics, women's pages, signed columns and display ads it offers all things to all people. It is the housewife's guide, the politician's breakfast food, a bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter...
...comparative scores are any indication of how a tennis match will go, the Varsity net squad should be almost hopeless underdogs to Yale when they meet this afternoon at the Soldiers Field courts...
...Freshmen have a better chance of success against the Bulldog yearlings, having suffered only one defeat in five starts so far this season. One ominous note is the fact that the Deerfield Varsity, which was leading the Crimson 4 to 2 in an incomplete match, suffered a 7 to 2 trouncing at the hands of Yale in a later match...
...White's doomsday trumpet is a steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...