Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William T. Tilden and Francis T. Hunter are a representative U. S. tennis team, then the U. S. was defeated by France in a five-match series at St. Cloud, France, last week. Tilden seemed to have regained his ancient power. He won both of his singles matches, humbling Rene Lacoste and high-bounding Jean Borotra in straight sets. Borotra laughed off his defeat with: "I lost to a superior player, but I was out until four in the morning welcoming Lindbergh. It was worth...
After Tilden and Hunter had been defeated in the decisive doubles match by Borotra and Brugnon, Tilden remarked with an effort at gallantry: "Don't blame the junior member of our team. . . . The junior member of the American team played great tennis...
...Author became famous when he published in Scribner's (monthly) his War impressions illustrated with burnt-match strokes. While these were selling widely in book form as Fix Bayonets, he was gathering fresh material at his post of duty with the U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...
Playing their final matches of the season, the first and second University tennis teams will invade New Haven today to meet their Blue rivals. The Crimson Freshman players will also meet the Eli first-year netmen on the Divinity Courts this afternoon. On Monday the golf teams of the two universities will play the last match of their schedules when they clash on the links of the Rhode Island Country Club at Providence...
...select rugs over the telephone to match a wall paper we have not seen. We place a contract for 10,000 tons of coal in the morning, and spend an hour over a pound of tacks to match a sample in the afternoon...