Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down in an inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
...Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, gave $5,000,000 to Harvard for a new Business School classroom building with a string attached: other donors must match his gift by July 1950. ¶ The Old Dominion Foundation (set up by Paul Mellon, Yale '29) gave Yale University and Vassar College $2,000,000 each to finance psychiatric studies...
...English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
...economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine music and archery. Macready, even with his handsome quiver of arrows, is no match for Raft...