Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plowing through mountains of statistics, but enlivening his discourse with a running undercurrent of wit and a few sly I-told-you-so's, M. Poincare presented an 18-month record of brilliant financial stewardship which no other living statesman can match. He has saved the franc from what seemed irretrievable decline, raised and stabilized it de facto at 25 to the dollar, drastically reduced the French internal debt, and accomplished all this without recourse to foreign credits and without having to secure ratification of the (in France) intensely unpopular Franco-U. S. debt settlement...
...Princeton will journey to Philadelphia against Navy. Students of the situation noted that the Princeton-Navy agreement carried a clause for two more years, the games to be played in October. Prophecies decreed an Army-Navy game in 1929. Meanwhile Army negotiated with Nebraska for a feature football match November...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...
...also made known that the Harvard-Yale polo match, scheduled for 7.30 o'clock in Common wealth Armory, would be played with no intermission in order to enable spectators to attend the Harvard-Yale hockey game at 8.30 the same evening...
...University polo team will engage in its first intercollegiate match of the season when it meets the Army horsemen at West Point tonight...