Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Singles. Only 57 minutes were required by national singles champion William T. Tilden, II, to defend his title from world's singles champion William M. Johnston in a disappointing straight-set final at the Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Tilden was at top form; Johnston, beaten before he stepped onto the turf. It was Tilden's fourth successive title. Score...
...from Cape Hatteras, the old warships Virginia and New Jersey were sent to the bottom in target practice by Army aviators. The object of the practice was to determine the comparative effectiveness of various bombs from various altitudes (TIME, Aug. 13). Inasmuch as the battleships were obsolete, unable to defend themselves, and had their water-tight compartments dismantled, they were easy game for the aviators. Yet the tests seemed to show the importance of command of the air, and the accuracy and comparative effectiveness of varying methods of bombing...
Appeal to League. The Greek Government (while stating that if driven to it, it would defend Greek shores from Italian invasion) instructed its delegate to the League of Nations, M. Nicholas Politis, to appeal to the League of Nations under Articles 12 and 15 of the League Covenant, which provides for arbitration of a dispute. Article 16, which provides for united pressure against a member of the League who has resorted to war in defiance of the articles of the Covenant, was not invoked...
...sugar industry is in large part American-owned, and American interests protested to the State Department that the proposed tax would practically confiscate their railways and port facilities. At that stage of the proceedings Colonel José Miguel Tarafa, author of the bill, left Cuba and went to Washington to defend his measure...
Horse lovers of many nations thrilled at the news. Questions flew. Who will defend for America? Will Papyrus stand the voyage? Will Steve Donoghue, wizard English jockey, ride Papyrus? The date? The stakes? The winner...