Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position for the first time this year, came from behind to beat Cuban Davis Cupper Raul Karman, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Karman, whose beautiful crosscourt backhand returns gave Weld a lot of trouble in the opening games, let up just a bit after winning the first set, and that was all the Crimson captain needed. The Tech star was unable to regain his touch, while Weld, who had started slowly grew stronger and stronger. In the final set, he broke Karman's service at love in the sixth game to lead by 4-2, and when Karman pulled...
Weld and Bowditch spotted Karman and Klapper a set in the first doubles match and then bounced back to win, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Barnaby rested his second and third doubles teams of Gallwey-Vinton and Lemann-Wood. Laurie Pratt and Jim Cameron, playing number two, came through to beat Winicour and Kennefich, 7-9, 6-1, 6-3, and Scott Custer and Langden Smith, playing third, wrapped up the shutout by taking Hodges and Dave Aker...
...Some men enter the Navy through the hawse hole, as enlisted men, but I entered through the cabin window," he related. He set sail first on the Guinevere, a converted yacht on anti-submarine duty off the Atlantic coast; his influence first showed when he persuaded the captain to dock at Maine's Matinicus Island, where the entire crew was feted with a lavish lobster dinner. The historian who had earlier retraced Columbus' path to the New World was off on another, more dangerous mission, applying his philosophy of writing history once more, a philosophy that told him to relive...
...brief turn at writing in Washington soon ended when in the spring of the following year he set out to the Solomons, where he formed a friendship with Admiral Nimitz. Establishing headquarters in Hawaii, he spent the summer canvassing the combat area of the South Pacific. He survived the Japanese air attack on Guadalcanal and saw even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year...
After examining both the Japanese and German naval archives, and armed with a view of the war as a whole, he and his assistants then set out to record what they had seen and learned. In April, 1946, he returned to his Chair in the History Department and wrote the naval history "weekends, holiday, and other days before 0900 and after...