Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final match was played on the Brae Burn Country Club course yesterday afternoon in spite of unsuitable weather conditions. Stimpson kept the match well in hand throughout the 18 hole encounter and profited on his drives because of the wind. Yesterday's play concluded the 1926 golf season...
...Stimpson '27 and J.A. Hutchinson '28 will clash for the title. Stimpson, a finalist in the New England Amateur tournament, was extended to a 20 hole match by C.L. Stover '30, a Freshman player, before entering the last round...
...Pierpont Morgan, too, was acquisitive, with the vehemence that made him grip life with both hands like a vase that must be held to be admired. Mr. Morgan had a very great library, a very great gallery. He is dead, and now the world produces no one else to match in the depth of this need to buy and hold the California gentleman who has come to own the letters of Mary Queen of Scots. If Mr. Huntington wants to read Chaucer in the evening, he can take down the original manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer...
...Penny Match...
...Chicago, one George Wilson, arrested for public nuisancing, declared he was not drunk. "Prove it," said the Judge. Wilson asked him for a penny, borrowed a match from the policeman, tried twice to balance penny on match. Twice he failed. The third time, miraculously, the penny stayed on the match for thirty seconds. "Discharged," said the Judge. The penny clattered to the floor...