Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Additional schools are expected to register in both classes, including Andover, winner for the past two years in the prep school division and thus holder of two legs on the Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Championship Cup. The cup, donated by Arthur W. Stevens '97, will become the property of the school winning it five times...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...
Last week's match between Perry & Vines was by no means their first. In 1931, when both were amateurs, they played four. Vines won them all. In a Davis Cup match in 1933 Perry beat Vines by default when Vines fainted at the match point in the fifth set. Vines became a professional later in 1933. Until last week, the closest thing to a contemporary showdown between Perry and Vines was an afternoon of informal practice when Perry was playing in and Vines reporting the U. S. Amateur Championship at Forest Hills last summer. At Forest Hills, Vines...
...Dame Fanny Lucy Radmall Houston, eccentric widow of Shipowner Sir Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...
...Motta, Roman Catholic, ex-lawyer, father of ten, to be re-elected President of the Swiss Confederation ("President of Switzerland") for the fifth time. As head of the Swiss delegation to the League of Nations, onetime Foreign Secretary and onetime Finance Minister, Dr. Motta has drained the Swiss political cup...