Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a year or more lawn tennis enthusiasts have argued over the possibility of Donald Budge, world's No. 1 amateur, beating Ellsworth Vines, world's No. 1 professional. They had never met in a formal tennis match (Budge was still playing with the juniors in 1933 when...
Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Budge backhand finally met the Vines forehand. It was the opening match of a 70-city Budge v. Vines professional tour, and 17,000 tennis enthusiasts gladly paid up to $7.70 a seat to see it: They breathlessly watched Budge...
Sixty minutes later 17,000 polite tennis fans looked at one another in astonishment. If they had been prizefight fans they would have yelled: "We wuz robbed." The great spectacle the tennis world had been anticipating for more than a year had been about as exciting as a ladies'...
Electron Microscopes now attract much attention among scientists who want to see ever smaller & smaller things. The magnification of ordinary microscopes is limited by the wave nature of light. Some things are so small that they slip through the meshes of the light rays like BB shot through a tennis...
Boyd prepared for college at Avon Old Farms School. He is concentrating in astronomy, received four A's as his final average last term, auditing Japanese and is a member of the business staff of the Advocate. He plays tennis, and participates in sports.