Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First of 25 new tennis courts on Soldiers Field designed to lift the congestion that plagued court enthusiasts last spring and summer will be completed by the end of the month according to the contractor...
First of 25 new tennis courts on Soldiers Field designed to lift the congestion that plagued court enthusiasts last spring and summer will be completed by the end of the month according to the contractor...
...Brown. They, too, had a lot to do. For their final five days of intensive practice, they engaged a sparring partner-U.S. Professional Frank Kovacs, the champion screwball of all tennis players. The Australian problem was clear-cut but tough: in just eight months they were trying to lift their outmoded, prewar game to U.S. standards...
Every now & then, Coach Roche drops in unannounced to watch his boys play. Says Big Jake: "Just knowing he's there is a big lift." A year ago, in the finals of the National Singles at Forest Hills, Jake spotted the Coach in the stands. Kramer was leading Tom Brown, 2-0, in the third set and was about to ease up a little when he saw Roche clenching a raised fist (meaning "go for it"). Jake closed out the set, 6-0, for his first U.S. singles championship...
...Congress had barely whetted veterans' hopes. Still hanging over for next session were bills to lift subsistence rates and on-the-job training ceilings which would make this year's bonanza look like a miserly down payment. And even the most economy-minded Congressman could not forget one Veterans Administration estimate: by 1952, veterans and their families will make up 43% of the nation's population...