Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre of the ring, had himself photographed holding the traditional reward of a yokozuna: the huge silver Emperor's Cup. Sumo has nothing to do with jujitsu or its modernized form judo, the art of self-defense in 250 holds which is compulsory in all Japanese schools. Sumo started in 23 B.C., long before jujitsu had been thought of. Winner of the first bout on record, Sukune...
Trials of the Meet will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the finals at 8 o'clock in the evening. The winning team in the preparatory school class will hold the Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Championship cup for the next year...
Such stuff stared Clevelanders in the face last week as they opened their newspapers. Cartoon strips told the tale of the businessman who nearly lost wife & job for lack of a cup of tea. And a Robert Ripleyan page of wonders graphically illustrated the fact that if all the tea which the world produces each year were stacked up it would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels...
...dropped out of major play for four seasons, re-emerged last summer as the wife of a Los Angeles rug salesman, to become the summer's tennis sensation. She won three important Eastern tournaments in a row, made herself the heroine of the U. S. Wightman Cup team by her victory over England's formidable "Kay" Stammers, received No. 2 ranking for the year without playing in the National Championships. Her training methods: rope skipping, calisthenics, roadwork like a prizefighter. Her reasons for turning professional: ". . . You have to polish trophies but not dollars, and I hate to shine...
Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London...