Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game, fed him slow balls for three sets. Since then, Vines has learned how to handle slow balls as well as fast ones. Last summer he won every tournament he played in, wound up with the U. S. championship at Forest Hills. This year he set out to perfect his chop, to be as versatile as Tilden. Not until the last rounds at Wimbledon did he get back firmly on his driving game. Then he beat Jack Crawford of Australia and Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin of England on successive days with tennis that even Wimbledon has never seen surpassed...
...precedent although it breaks my heart to break TIME'S perfect record. In the issue of July 11, p. 20, under "Sports" appears the following sentence referring to Benjamin Bangs Eastman: ''He ran in sneakers." On the cover is a dramatic picture of that event showing the latter racing in spiked track shoes...
Reading your interesting account of Durham's bull, I was reminded of a characteristic of the animal to which you did not point. You will recognize that on the bull's side appears a more or less perfect...
...story as it reached me is that Durham & Co. imported this animal at a great cost from the Pampas, after search for a bull on whose side was a "perfect map of the United States...
Ignace Jan Paderewski earned $27,000 at one sitting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last February for the Musicians' Emergency Aid. Nearly as much for the same purpose was realized by the "perfect program" (Wagner's Parsifal Prelude and Good Friday Music. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) which Arturo Toscanini crossed the ocean specially to conduct in Carnegie Hall last May (TIME, May 9). Last week was publicized a series of bigger biggest, greater greatest benefit performances. With the co-operation of National Broadcasting Co., Dr. Walter Damrosch will put on five monster concerts in Madison...