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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negroes are not permitted to play major-league baseball, are not tolerated in bigtime tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association or the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association.† They have their own American League and National League, their own All-Star baseball game. They have their own national golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

At Virginia's venerable Negro Hampton Institute, famed for its fine tennis courts as well as its fine faculty, 210 of the country's top-flight Negro tennists met last week for their 23rd annual national championships, climax of the A. T. A.'s 35 sectional and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

What they saw on the tennis courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Most of Cue's editors have a little money in the magazine, a little more money of their own, work for salaries averaging around $75 a week. They pride themselves on being sportsmen, compete madly at tennis, squash, billiards, chess. President Keep's dream: a gymnasium for Cue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen All | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

The world's most renowned regatta is the English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vim and Tomahawk | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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