Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock: They've started.... Coming pretty slowly at first--who's going to be the first out? Here he is--Wesley Harrison Lowell, Jr. That red-haired, tough-looking baby almost beat him to it. Lowell was in such a rush he forget the name of his city on his Phillips Brooks card...
...coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard, or mounting the steps to Widener's top floor with incredible rapidity, while undergraduates try in vain to beat him to the top via the elevator...
...only outcome capable of confounding the Forest Hills authorities more than an all-foreign final was to have Anita Lizana beat touted Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, a Warsaw typist whose powerful forehand had been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after...
...tennis season, between California's J. Donald Budge and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, might never take place. While Budge was pacing easily through the field without once losing a set or even being carried to deuce games, von Cramm needed four sets to beat Hal Surface and Donald McNeill, both unseasoned players, and Bitsy Grant, whom he disposed of in straight sets at Wimbledon this year, took him to five furious sets in the quarterfinals. After the semifinals, in which Budge blasted his Davis Cup teammate, Frank Parker, off one court, and von Cramm...
...possible 3,000) against the U. S. Cavalry's 2,764, the U. S. Infantry's 2,760; at Camp Perry, Ohio. The Los Angeles Police five-man team won the .45 caliber pistol match, scoring 1,332 (out of a possible 1,500) to beat the U. S. Marines' 1920 record...