Search Details

Word: matches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Billy the Kid Hummel hurled the lacquer thinner and match? No one seemed to care; it was enough that Hudson was dead. He had created so much hatred that Prisoner Ralph Bowman feared for his own life at the hands of other convicts because he had used a fire extinguisher in trying to save Jim Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Iron Bars a Cage | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Hudson sat quietly in his cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held him in. He lived long enough to whisper a name: "Will Hummel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Iron Bars a Cage | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Yardlings will play a return match with Andover at Andover later in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Plays | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

Charlie Hamm, captain of last year's freshman team, will play his first varsity match at third singles, followed by Charlie MacVeagh and Larry Sears at fourth and fifth singles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squash Team to Oppose Weak McGill Today at Montreal | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

...play should count heavily against top teams like Providence College in the opener tomorrow night, and Eastern powers like Boston College, Boston University, and perhaps Yale. Except for the Elis, each of these teams will boast excellent goal-tending this season and it will be up to Bailey to match them...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Shows Excellent Potential | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | Next