Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden. The players will be closeted in soundproof glass booths. On a table top 100 ft. square, 52 sandwich men will act as cards, running out as they are played, falling down and being "swept up" when a trick is won. The victorious team will receive a new bridge cup, the International Challenge Trophy. What Mike Jacobs will receive is problematical...
...took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, "which is shed for many for the remission of sins.-Matthew XXVI...
Nowhere in or out of the Bible is there to be found a better description of the Cup of the Last Supper. For a thousand years that drinking vessel has been the object of pious search, the subject of revered romance, throughout the Christian world. Quietly on view in the Brooklyn Museum last week went a great egg-shaped goblet which hundreds of devout folk believe to be the Holy Grail itself. Though in all historical accuracy it probably is no such thing, it is certainly one of the oldest pieces of Christian art extant...
...last week slid a tiny, single-motored De Haviland-Gypsy biplane. Out of 'it, her sharp little face bright with joy, jumped a slim, 25-year-old girl who had just become the first woman to make a solo flight across the South Atlantic.* Hustling off for a cup of tea she said: "I'll fly on to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow...
...cup given by Mr. Harkness will be engraved with the arms of both colleges and will bear the legend "Harvard-Yale Intramural Championship...