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...were living at this hour, he would not have to ask "What does a woman want?" The answer is a big serve. The spectacle of women trying to prove that anatomy is not destiny and ?temporarily, at least, turning into cavepersons on the mixed-doubles courts as a result???may be either good news or bad in the long run. One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...line decision in favor of Vines when he was playing von Cramm the next day annoyed the gallery, caused shouts of "Lo-carno!" It made no difference in the final result???3-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-3, for Vines. Dr. Daniel Prenn, who looks a little like Walter Hagen and plays tennis the way Hagen plays golf, with imperturbable determination, gave Shields his second beating in the last match of the series?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...been led has caused people to face their religious difficulties as a purely personal matter. This in some ways is to be commended, as it avoids a great deal of cant and hypocrisy, but such a process extending over a long period of years will only produce one result???the gradual dissolution and death of the Church of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: British Youth | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...which he finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result???say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Moscow | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks of the kind that have lately blazed up into the automobile, airplane and radio. The broadest powers are to be given to an administrating board with Mr. Hoover in the chair. It is impossible to say what may some day result???trips to the moon? Invisibility? Synthetic babies? Immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Work Begins | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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