Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilson stroked the Harvard Varsity crew to victory in the Challenge Cup races at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England, last July...
...quintet of German chessmen: the biennial international tournament for the Hamilton-Russell Cup.* Davis Cup of chess; conquering 26 other nations and just squeezing out a team of nerve-racked Poles by half a point (36 to 35½); after a siege of 27 days; at Buenos Aires. U. S. chessmen, victors in 1933-35-37, did not compete this year because they couldn't be bothered...
...Ties. One cold winter day 14 years ago, while young Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was pondering cancer problems in Basle, Switzerland, he noticed a cup of steaming hot coffee and one of tea resting side by side on a window sill. The steam from both cups condensed on the window pane, but the crystals of the frost patterns were very different. Dr. Pfeiffer had a hunch that the blood of cancer victims and the blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride...
...York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane, a golfers' golfer. Three years ago nobody had ever heard of him. Two years ago he lost to Johnny Goodman, one down, in the National Amateur semifinals, made the 1938 Walker Cup team on the strength of that. The U. S. lost the Walker Cup, but it was not Bud's fault. He won his match, against English Champion Frank Pennink, by the unheard-of margin of 12 up. This spring he lambasted most of the pros in the business in the National...
...year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, the tournament for the Men's Singles became a three-front battle between Riggs and the two top-ranking Australians : young, ambidextrous John Bromwich (whom Riggs had 1-2-3'd on the first day of the Davis Cup matches) and seasoned, smart Adrian Quist (who had beaten Riggs on the last day of the matches...