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Word: matches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Russo-Finnish negotiations at Moscow, and who can match most Soviet bigshots in proletarian experience. He once worked as a miner in the U. S. The Soviets were not so happy about Minister Tanner; the Soviet radio quickly called him one of the "madmen of Helsinki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Magistrate Elias Myers demanded proof that a burlesqueen's dress was too flimsy. The proof: a detective folded the costume, squeezed it into a match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Losing only one match, the Varsity wrestling team downed a weak M.I.T. squad Saturday afternoon, 33 to 3. The inexperienced Freshman grapplers, however, fell before the Engineerlings by a 23 to 16 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS DOWN M.I.T. BY DECISIVE 33-3 SCORE | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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