Word: matching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
Though more conservative newsmen. have tried to laugh him off as a superficial, snap-brimmed Fearless Fosdick of journalism, none can match his hard work or his arm-long record of newsbeats...
...feuding and crusading has erupted into some whopping libel suits. All told, Pearson has been sued eight times for a total of $23,500,000. But cagey Drew Pearson, a match for most libel lawyers, brags that he has not yet paid a judgment (though his attorneys' fees are huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism...
Tomorrow Harvard will take on the Agwam Hunt Club in a Metropolitan League match...
Captain Jim McKittrick maintained his unbeaten record yesterday when he shut out his Lord Jeff opponent 3 to 0. But in a match characterized by fast play, to the Foster brothers were off their games and lost...