Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...well as the University of Maryland, Lillie began his research in the desire to illuminate evidence of pre-revolutionary estates comparable with those of the South. The work has since branched into historical research of Cambridge for a period of two hundred years and has extended to Boston, Newport, R. I., and Portsmouth...
Shut the Door. Navy exams, as described by Lieut. Herbert I. Harris of the Newport Training Station, are equally strict. Recruits come before the psychiatrist when they are worn out from physical tests, completely naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said...
Aircraft Maker Glenn L. Martin said that battleships could be scrapped if the U.S. had enough big flying boats like his newly launched, titanic Mars. Old blue-water men kept their tempers. Rear Admiral Ormond L. Cox remarked during a reporter's visit to the Newport News yards that if the other fellow has battleships, then we've got to have them too. Jane's, the British annual handbook on fighting ships, credited Japan with five new 40,000-ton battleships built or on the ways, plus battle-cruisers of 12,000-15,000 tons. Down Battleship...
Official University tribute will soon he paid to Vic Ehler, one of the College's best-loved janitors, who died suddenly of a heart attack Thursday night in the hospital of the Naval Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island...