Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent years the various Shamrocks of Sir Thomas Lipton. It is usually a syndicate of N. Y. Yacht Club men who finance the defence. The three winning boats this century have been the Columbia, Reliance, Resolute. In memory of the first great triumph the boats race for "America's Cup...
...mustn't forget to get a mailing card. I wish I had another cup of coffee. Be calm, be calm. 586 B. C. While Jeremiah wont down into Egypt Cain and Abel were carried captive to Babylon, no it was Ezokiel. Ezekiel saw de wheel, catharsis, children cry for it; he won't ask that anyway...
...Barely had Ambassador Herrick tasted and copiously imbibed the nectar of French culture, when he saw the cup about to be dashed from his lips by blond Teutons to whom dusky, petite France was a morsel, not an inspiration. Nearer tramped the Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...
...record holding hydroplane, arrived but was not admitted. The show space was already overcrowded. She was removed to the show rooms of her owner Gar Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency and raced by the only notable woman marine speedster, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of Horace E. Dodge, famed maker of Dodge automobiles...
...tennis potentates of the importance of perfect tennis education came a similar, more general recognition in the U. S. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association drew up resolutions nurturing professionalism. Careful co-operation with the Professional Lawn Tennis Association was recommended. Last summer's loss of the Davis Cup to France unquestionably prompted the resolutions...