Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...hockey team has increased its schedule: Holy Cross is slated for a match at the Boston Skating Club, January 14, at 7:30 o'clock, and Princeton has tentatively agreed to play at the Boston Arena on February 1 at 8:30 o'clock...
Minor sports have also undergone changes, the H.A.A. reported. Rhode Island State will participate in a mile relay here, and a Yale squash match has been slated for the second week in March. The swimming meet here with the Blue has been advanced to January...
...hotter spot than Ford, put there by the U.A.W. strategy, which had singled it out as the first target to strike. But as the G.M. strike entered its fifth week and the language on both sides grew more violent, G.M.'s negotiators were no match for U.A.W.'s fiery, eloquent Walter Reuther...
...Hearst hierarchy has a very clear notion of what Young Bill thinks about-except that it seems to match his father's thinking pretty well. (But the Old Man, at Bill's age, was a hell-for-leather radical, campaigning for cheap money, public power and Democrats...