Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first fifth-round match to be completed in the State Squash Racquets Tournament. W. J. Iselin '29, captain of the University squash team defeated G. H. Perkins '26 yesterday afternoon on the University courts. Iselin, who is seeded first in the tourney, was forced to go to four games before he managed to down his opponent from the Cambridge Squash and Racquets Club by a score of 15-12, 14-15, 15-11, 15-9. Perkins who is seeded seventh in the tourney pressed Iselin during the entire match but did not succeed in coping with his opponents sizzling shots...
...stages by the end of the week. W. J. Iselin '29 is slated to play the winner of the match between A. G. Thacher '29 and L. Wheeler, Jr. of the Union Boat Club. Iselin, who is seeded first in the tourney, is expected to go on to a fifth round match with B. C. Perkins of the Cambridge Squash and Racquets Club very soon...
...heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...
Coincidentally, in Manhattan, murmurings over a new opera house mounted to a front-page roar. Confirmed were the reports that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had leased from Columbia University a sector of Manhattan extending from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (TIME, Dec. 31), and that he had done so with a new opera house in mind. But the Metropolitan's directors continued to ponder their selection of a site...
...Ingraham '31, ranked third on the second University squash team, defeated R. A. Powers, of the Tennis and Racquet Club, who is seeded fourth in the State Squash Racquets tournament, in a startling upset last night. Ingraham, the first man to reach the fifth round, fought his way to victory over Powers in a match that lasted for nearly two hours. Although the score was 10-15, 15-9, 15-9, 15-18, 15-7, every point was bitterly contested...