Word: metzing
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Singles--S. E. Davenport (H) defeated Fay (M), 6-2, 6-3; G. H. Hartford (H) defeated Davis (M), 6-0, 6-0; Lawrence Freeburn (H) defeated Gilder (M), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; W. S. Emmett (H) defeated Roberte (M), 6-4, 6-4; R. E. Metz (H) won from Palmer...
Singles Davenport defeated Miles (R), 6-3, 7-5; Friedman (R), defeated G. H. Hartford '34, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3; W. K. Porter '34 defeated Partridge (R), 6-4, 6-4; Lawrence Freeburn '34 defeated Clark (R), 6-1, 6-4; R. E. Metz '34 defeated Sherwood (R), 6-0, 6-1; W. S. Emmet '34 defeated Landon...
Doubles Miles and Friedman (R) defeated Davenport and Hartford (H), 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Porter and Freeburn (H) defeated Partridge and Sherwood (R), 6-0, 2-6, 6-2; Metz and Emmet (H) defeated Clark and Landon...
...August afternoon in 1870, in St. Clement's College at Metz, a serious dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
Marshal Foch re-entered Alsace in November, 1918. He wrote in his memoirs: "On November 17 the Allied armies crossed the lines they held at the moment hostilities ceased. . . . On the 25th I entered Metz and on the 26th Strasbourg." He did not think it important to add one other fact. When he rode in triumph into Metz and Strasbourg, Marshal Foch car- ried in his hand the ancient curved sabre of General Kl?...