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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 26, p. 2 -Canada's Atlantic pride, the Empress of Britain, is indeed roomy but emphatically not old. In her classification of express liner (the top classification), only four Atlantic liners are newer-built and two of them are newer by only one year. She is newer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over There | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

It was natural for Herbert Jr., a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School and since then a radio engineer, to get into seismographic oil prospecting, not only because his father has prospected off & on all his life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prospector's Son | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Lawn | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

> German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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