Word: racketeered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only 38. This is one of those pictures about college life. The crossed tennis racket, roll-necked sweater college life perpetrated exclusively by the DeMille boys. Female inhabitants of the institution walk the campus clutching ice cream cones...
...round, steel tennis-racket...
...steel tennis racket has been supplanted by the racket with a perfectly round face as the novelty of the tennis world. The invention is credited to William A. Larned, for many years National Champion. It is said that the new device marks an important step in racket construction due to the absolutely even tension on all strings which results. Experts have tried out the new racket and claim that accuracy and steadiness, particularly in difficult half-volleys and pickups, are more easily attainable...
Both University and Freshman tennis teams take up the racket today in opposition to school and country club. The University plays the Oakley Country Club at Watertown this afternoon. In the tournaments during the past few days, George Guild '23 has climbed from fourth place to second, while W. P. Dixon '25, absent since the opening trip, again appears in the line-up as number five. The order of the University players for this afternoon...
...Harvard Cooperative Society has put up a permanent challenge cup known as the "Cooperative Trophy" to be awarded each year to the winner of the tournament, while the runner-up will receive a tennis racket. The entrance fee will be 50 cents per person...