Word: matted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welles entered the State Department, strode into the big, paper-cluttered office of his chief, Cordell Hull. Twenty-nine minutes later Mr. Welles, his face settled into its mask of boredom, Mr. Hull, with his patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge desk carved from timbers...
...TIME should have known better. In World War I, as now, the rule is: against matériel, high-explosive shells; against personnel, shrapnel...
...over two years building trades have been curbed for the sake of war industries. By last week this had resulted in such a housing shortage that in Tokyo ten people were found living in many a six-mat room (nine by twelve feet...
...first time this year the wrestling team will enter a meet the underdog tomorrow when it takes to the mat against Navy at Annapolis...
...most completely unpredicted defeat was that of Dick Thomas who was defeated in the 155 pound class by Ted Barber. Thomas found the small mat a decided handicap when he was trying to work his switches which generally go so well. Jimmy Redmon, still suffering slightly from an injured shoulder, forced his man into an overtime at 128 and had him in two near falls but that did not seem to be enough to give him the match...