Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today's game is the first of the year, it is difficult to make any prophecies about the results of the match. Judging, however, by the work which the team has done so far this year, it should be able to make a creditable showing against the Milton...
...will play in the match this afternoon have been rated as follows: 1 Whitbeck, 2 Lisker, 3 Appleton, 4 Bailey, 5 Barnes, and 6 Cobb. There will also be three sets of doubles composed of Whitbeck and Lisker, Appleton and Balley, and Cobb and Hamilton...
...When he had finished his law course, I would tell him to start at once and to start as a professional politician. In politics, as in sport, the old maxim holds, 'a third rate pro is an over-match for the best of amateurs'. He will have to begin at the bottom. Politics is no different from any other profession. You cannot start at the top. I have had many friends who at one time or another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that...
...considering the wind and the state of the earth, he played as if he had suddenly become a machine adjusted to make holes in even fours. On the 16th he was a stroke under fours and Duncan, with three ragged fives, was three holes down. There, without dramatics, the match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...
...thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...