Word: matches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helping Mr. Churchill's very proud but none too agile Royal Navy last week were two of the three escapist destroyers of the Polish Navy. They joined in a North Sea gunning match with several Nazi airplanes. In the skirmish, nobody got hurt...
Last January the bonfire girls found a match: the U. S. Government had never officially appointed her to her post. Franklin Roosevelt quietly appointed a chum of Mesdames Perkins, Dewson and his wife -Mary Winslow of Washington-to the "vacancy." But Miss Stevens thwarted the bonfire girls. She refused to leave office...
...will get this part at home in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.) They know that now when they come out full-fledged, they will be given the best ships to fly that money can buy. Especially in fighters, Britain is satisfied that she is the Nazis' match, her Hawker Hurricanes being nearly as fast and twice as manageable as Germany's celebrated Messerschmitts...
...sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...
...injury-riddled Harvard football squad will be waiting in the trenches this afternoon to match its defensive warfare strength against an Army attack which promises to be dangerous both on land and in the air. The bulky Crimson line should be able to prevent any sustained ground advances led by powerful Cadet Art Frontczak, but the aerial bombardment instigated by Johnny Hatch and Jere Maupin will be severe...