Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophomore Bill Cullen, playing first, who gave North Carolina's star Herb Brown a tough battle before bowing 13-11, 6-3, displayed a powerful serve and sharp net game in downing the Crimson's Ham Gravem...
Williams results: Singles--1) Bill Cullon (W) defeated Ham Gravem 6-2, 6-1; 2) Wally Jensen (W) defeated Alex Haegler, 6-4, 6-4; 3) George Kesel (W) defeated Conrad Flacher, 6-1, 6-3; 4) Brooks Harris (H), defeated Tom Bortnick, 9-7, 6-8, 6-2; 5) Howie Patterson (W) defeated Dan Mayers, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; 6) Maynard Canfield (H) defeated Mac Fiske, 6-4, 6-3. Doubles--1) Haegler and Harris (H) defeated Cullen and Jensen, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; 2) Bob Oxnard and Kesel defeated Gravem and Ben Heckscher...
...biggest meatpacking firms in the U.S.: Swift & Co. Gireh begat Zephaniah, who begat Perez, who begat Jesse, who begat Jehiel, who begat Orville. who begat Frank B. Swift, a prosperous wholesale merchant in New York. But while the better-known branch of the family from Sandwich went in for ham, Frank preferred cheese. His big, busy Chelsea commission house handled as many as 60 carloads of cheese...
...great fear was art that did not honestly jibe with its model, life. "Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and, I think, Japheth. The only thing Ham noted was that his father was a drunkard; he completely lost sight of the fact that Noah was a genius, that he built an ark and saved the world. Writing people ought not imitate Ham...
John Houk (B) defeated Ham Gravem, 6-2, 6-3; Alex Haegler (H) defeated George Kirkpatrick, 3-6, 10-8, 8-6; Conrad Fischer (H) defeated Nat Greene, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Brooks Harris (H) defeated Webb Ray, 7-5, 7-5; Dan Mayers (H) defeated Larry Waterman, 6-2, 8-6; Maynard Canfield (H) defeated Ian Sinclair...