Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...
...Tilden purification did not necessarily mean that he will be on the 1929 Davis Cup Team for the U. S. There is a plan to develop a team, all of younger players. The Davis Cup drawings were made last week in Paris with President Doumergue of France presiding. The U. S. plays Canada first, Japan to meet the winner. England plays Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco...
...Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...
...prize, an engraved silver cup, was given to the student submitting the best set of plans for the roof garden of a hospital. The winning drawings are now on exhibition at the Old Fogg Museum...
...Choate News was awarded the cup on account of its general excellence in the appearance of its makeup, the variety of its news stories, and the quality of its editorials. This paper has also won the contest for the past few years conducted by the schools in the Eastern Interscholastic Newspaper Association. The judges of the contest were V. O. Jones '28 and H. C. Bartlett, '28, presidents of the CRIMSON during 1927-28, and R. T. Sherman '28, editorial chairman of the CRIMSON the same year...