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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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WPA this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gratitude | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

In Woodbury, L. I. did the late Otto Hermann Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree. Architects Delano & Aldrich built it for him 22 years ago-a towering, turreted, 100-room French chateau surrounded with gardens, stables, farm buildings, 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, landing field and woodlands on 441...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Transition | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

For most U. S. citizens the month of June means weddings, graduations and reacquaintance with the great outdoors. Last week, in almost every U. S. home that boasts a patch of green grass, families were thinking up ways of amusing themselves or entertaining their week end guests. For those who...

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

Tall, sandy-haired, handsome Walther Wilhelm August Ludwig Reinhardt, expert .golfer & tennis player, author of a prize-winning life of George Washington (in German), used to flutter U. S. feminine hearts as German consul in Chicago, Manhattan, Seattle. Last week he was still consul general in Liverpool, England, but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Literary Consul | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jack for Peabo | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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