Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with two hands was not enforced. When a plug-ugly protege of Promoter Dempsey dropped a handkerchief, 54 entrants from 15 Manhattan restaurants set off at a run from 59th street down Eighth Avenue to 50th street. Winner, a surly-looking Italian named Dominick Caccippio, got $125, a silver cup and the whiskey from his tray...
...hydraulic pressure, and cause and effect. With these physical phenomena in mind, local savants have been recently devoting their time to solving the problem posed by the presence of so many people at the gatherings in the Yard amphitheater, gatherings many of which follow immediately upon the smatutinal cup of coffee...
Other silver included the flagons and chalices given Christ Church, Cambridge, by King William and Queen Mary; a collection of tankards varying in capacity from one pint to a quart and a half; the magnificant Stoughton Cup; and numerous flighting fixtures--some of which even used bear grease...
...Engene H. Pool '95; Philip Stockton '96, president of the First National Bank in Boston; Joseph H. Choate, Jr. '97; Francis M. Weld '97, president of the Harvard Club of New York; George F. Baker '99; Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. '00; Dwight F. Davis '00, donor of the Davis Cup...
While Helen Jacobs was winning the U. S. Girls' Championship (1924 and 1925), Helen Wills was winning the U. S. Women's Singles. When Helen Jacobs got on the Wightman Cup team (1927), Helen Wills won her first title at Wimbledon. When Helen Jacobs was presented at Court (1935), she was six years behind Helen Wills, who by that time had married a San Francisco broker, Frederick Moody. In the long rivalry between the two, they played each other eight times. Helen Wills Moody won seven. Helen Jacobs won once, in the U. S. final at Forest Hills...