Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 6, it was announced at the H. A. A. yesterday on receipt of a letter from the United States Lawn Tennis Association in New York. The Prentice Cup, which is to be awarded each year by Mr. Bernon S. Prentice '05, to the winners of the international match, will be in competition for the first time this year...
...also announced by Mr. Practice, who is in charge of arrangements for the visiting English teams, that the Oxford-Cambridge combination will play a series of matches in the United States in addition to their regular match with Harvard and Yale. Princeton, McGill, and Williams are among the college teams that will be met, together with several club teams. Members of the English teams will also compete as individuals in the intercollegiate Championships, which will be held at the Merlon Cricket Club beginning June 22, and in the invitation Tournaments at Newport, Seabright, and Southampton...
Three days later, M. Gaudin met Charles Delporte of Belgium at Brussels, defeated him in a fencing match 12 to 4 points...
Although the "steel barometer" has failed to register a decline so far, it is still possible that somebody may be holding a match under it. Elsewhere in business, the earmarks of a new downward "trend" seem plainly apparent. Not only have commodity prices as a whole registered their first decline for many months, but in the speculative markets the drop has been especially severe. Even the much-heralded intention to advance steel prices has apparently been abandoned. Thus it may be that the recent advance of the New York Reserve rediscount rate will mark a "turn" in business from expansion...
Under MISCELLANY, Mar. 9, 1925, you inform an interested public of a knifing match following a "jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish)." Your logic may be strong but your line of reasoning is most inconsistent. A fight; ergo Irish! But did it occur to you that the Irish rarely use knives in a fight? The club referred to is not Irish. It is composed entirely and exclusively of Americans of Italian blood. Statements such as the above might be excused if made deliberately; but if you are interested enough in the club to write about it, you should...