Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilmington, Del., May 24--The United States Davis Cup team launched its 1934 drive for the historic tennis trophy successfully today by winning both open singles matches from Canada...
...TRUE. This sentimental pilgrimage accomplished, Messrs. Dunlap, Goodman and Ouimet nipped back to the Royal & Ancient Club for some more practice. On that oldest and most formidable of courses, they and their six teammates were determined a week later to inter some live golfers, the British Walker Cup team...
Foursomes, Four two-ball foursomes, wherein each pair alternately plays one ball, opened the two days' play last week. It is a game the British are supposed to play better than U. S. golfers. If the game favored the British, desperately bent on winning after seven straight Walker Cup defeats, the weather favored the visitors. The wide greens, big as baseball fields, were sunny and the wind, worst of all St. Andrews' many infuriations...
...lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal Sumerian funeral: "Down the sloping passage comes a procession of people, the members of the court...
Princeton's unbeaten varsity crew: the Childs Cup, by besting Pennsylvania and Columbia at home on Lake Carnegie...