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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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England's tennis-playing ladies had taken a terrible drubbing from the U.S. Wightman Cup team last summer at Wimbledon. Last week the English girls began getting free instruction from an enemy agent, onetime U.S. Women's Champion Alice Marble. The thing she missed most in their playing: the killer spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One for the British | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...tennis, Davis Cup Hero Ted Schroeder, previously unranked for 1946, was awarded the valuable No. 2 amateur rating, ahead of Frank Parker. The balloting involved as many proxies as a U.S. Steel board meeting. Final count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Love of the Game | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...weeks of play in the inter-House Squash competition, the winner of which receives the Bernon S. Prentice Cup, have been completed, and play will be resumed next term. Adams has a firm grip on, the A' league top position with a 13 and 7 record, although it is in last place in B league where Eliot is out in front, having won 11 and lost 2 games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Leads in Intramural Race For Straus Trophy at End of Term | 1/14/1947 | See Source »

...final two cup matches, which didn't matter, were won by U.S. second-stringer Gardnar Mulloy (over Pails, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4) and Kramer (over Bromwich, 8-6, 6-4, 6-4). It was the first Davis Cup sweep since 1935, when the English trounced the U.S. team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cup Comes Home | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...Here the teachers never meet. Back home ... we have some social contacts. While the children have their free milk, the teachers have 20 minutes for a cup of tea and social intercourse. There are no bells ringing and no dictatorship rules. ... I like to be conscientious as a teacher of my own free will. ... I don't feel free in Centennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Briton in a Bear Garden | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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