Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs were counting on three new hybrid super-worms, all developed this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last week, Long Security produced 500-600 eggs. Her partner's ardor was then cooled by a night in a refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground...
...that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...
...more than once, and the Yale contest generally manages to fill up every seat in view. Currently, the student attendance remains fairly constant, with local customers and travelling fans swallowing the rest of the stalls in proportion to the Crimson squad's seasonal success and consequent importance of the match. Nobody has gone on record with a prediction of this fall's future, but tickets to the remaining tussles are going fast...
Coach James MacDonald spent another day with his soccer men yesterday trying to raise the morale of the squad from the depths of the defeat by Amherst last Saturday to a level high enough to match a potent Green eleven at Hanover this weekend...
...Haven the boys stormed out of Woolsey Hall full of fire and the love of Old Eli. They swarmed across the Green, lifted a heavy wooden booth off the Courthouse steps as if it were a match box, dumped it in the middle of the trolley tracks...