Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final was, but unequivocal. Though Mrs. Watson took the first game, led 3-2 at the end of the fifth, she finally succumbed to fresher youth, greater strength. The score: 6-4, 6-2. Double was Miss Wills' victory, for it gave her permanent possession of the cup...
...playthings sported along the Atlantic seaboard. In the final, climactic race of the New York Yacht Club cruise, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, persistent vacationist, piloted Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie to beat George M. Pynchon's Istalena for the King of England's cup...
...Resolute successfully defended the America's cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV. Syndicates of Atlantic coastal tycoons were announced last week, two of which carry on the old Vanitie-Resolute rivalry...
...German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier races, captured the President Hoover cup (sponsored, not donated, by the President, who, no yachtsman, hears about yacht doings from Secretary of Navy Adams...
...Mercury's wing spread is only 18 ft., her length 23 feet. Her motor is a 24-cylinder Packard, generating more than 1,100 h. p. Lieutenant Williams, expert in motors, metals and fabrics operating through high speed's, naturally expects her to win the Schneider Cup at Cowes, England, next month. To do that she must surpass the 318 m. p. h. attained by the Italian Major Mario de Bernardi...