Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Semi-final Series: between the winner of the second and the winner of the third place series; for the honor of meeting the winner of the first place series, in the final, to decide who gets the Cup...
...sports enthusiasts who appreciate the simplicity of the World Series, in which the two best baseball teams in the U. S. play each other, the complexities which determine possession of the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the world's championship at hockey, are entirely incomprehensible. In professional hockey, there is only one major league, divided for convenience & profit into two "groups" whose members play against each other regularly. Instead of awarding the Stanley Cup each season to the best team, officials of the National Hockey League hold not one but five series of post-season games, from which only...
...water poloist who ever attended Annapolis. Now stationed at Shanghai, he was unable to help his brothers last week. Ray Ruddy, most famed member of the family at present and usually considered the ablest water poloist in the world, is 22. He has won the President's Cup for seven years in a row, swum on two Olympic teams, won the National Long Distance Championship for six years in a row. Now a coal salesman, he swims only in his spare time. Consequently, he was on the sidelines last week at the start of the semifinal game between...
Demi-tasse in tepid cup...
...becomes a professed religious by taking a vow of stability which attaches the nun irrevocably to the Society and vice versa. The Madames wear black, with a bonnet-like headdress framing the face in stiff white ruching. Semi-cloistered, they invariably live in large and comfortable convents, give a cup of tea to visiting bishops, Jesuits, papas and mammas, except during Lent...