Word: corbillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portugal, brown of Korea. Cobalt from South Vietnam clashed with ten other shades of blue from ten assorted countries. As if to keep everyone happy, there were almost as many prizes as there were colors on the floor: the Swaythling Cup for the men's team champs, the Corbillon Cup for the ladies' team champs, the St. Bride Vase for the men's singles, the Gasper-Geist Cup for ladies' singles, the Pope Trophy for ladies' doubles, the Iran Cup for men's doubles. But most of the prizes did not go very...
...Picture of Kichiji. By taking every title except the ladies' Corbillon Cup, the ladies' doubles (also won by Rumania) and the mixed doubles (won by the U.S.), the Japanese reasserted their dominance of a sport that was once little more than a parlor pastime for upper-class Englishmen. They have been building up their skill ever since Professor Seizo Tsuboi brought the game home from England in 1902. Now, from Hokkaido to Kyushu, every community has its table-tennis center, and it is practically a national game...
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