Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Underwood '32, 6-3, 6-1; Page (M) defeated G. P. Webber '33, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; Morton McMichael '33 defeated Gordon (M), 6-2, 6-2; E. H. Roorbach '34 defeated Brooks (M), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; M. P. Richmond '34 defeated Parker...
Doubles: Woodard and Underwood (H) defeated Davis and Gilder (M), winning the third set by default; Webber and McMichael (II) defeated Page and Parker (M), 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Gordon and Fiske (M) defeated S. T. M. Wright '33 and J. K. Mitchell...
...Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor...
...turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
...holders of Parker Fellowships were re-appointed, for further study abroad: Eugene Feenberg, of Dallas, Texas, for study in Physics at Munich, and Gaines Liu, of Honan, China, for study in Zoology at Northeastern University, Mukden, China. Feenberg received his A.B. at the University of Texas in 1929. Liu received his A.M. at Harvard in 1931. Clifford Ladd Professor comes from the Department of Zoology at Johns Hopkins to hold a Parker Fellowship in Physiology at Harvard next fall...