Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then Gottfried von Cramm, the only great post-War player in a country where until recently tennis and squash courts were discouragingly rare, has put Germany into the Davis Cup interzone final four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained...
...logotype. Colonel Knox's face, normally ruddy and smiling, became ruddy and grim. He strode into his office, whose walnut panels once adorned the private library of late News Publisher Victor Lawson. Popping down before his little typewriter beside his great desk, Publisher Knox jangled the keys. In rare rough rider style he rattled off an editorial ripping into AP-the great press association of which Publisher Victor Lawson was founder, of which Melville Stone (founder of the News) was long general manager. He wrote...
...ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where the ice is thinner (see p. 33) but will certainly give cinemaddicts a rare good show for their money...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...
...Surbaya zoo has long had with the San Diego, Calif, zoo friendly give-&-take relations similar to those which the Antwerp zoo has with the New York Zoological Park (TIME, Aug. 16). They trade rare specimens. The anoas certainly were rare; only four have ever been in the U. S. So the Surbaya zoo promptly put their anoas, accompanied by an old keeper named Topas Tenney, on board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other...