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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These include: the great Jones Beach (where 130,000 bathers can throw horseshoes, pitch-putt-golf, listen to opera, row their babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Promised Land | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

More striking, however, than the economic talents, are the extracurricular talents "Mike" Elizalde will bring to the job of Resident Commissioner, which fun-loving Manuel Quezon plans to take over himself when his presidential term ends in 1941. A millionaire sportsman, Seňor Elizalde can play as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Commissioner Mike | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Thus did the semifinalists in the U. S. Singles tennis championships (men's & women's) spend their time last week while an unprecedented rainy spell held up the semi-finals at Forest Hills for six days. As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Looking forward to next year, when 23-year-old Donald Budge will probably follow Bill Tilden, Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry into professional tennis (at some $100,000 a year), sport fans felt sorry for the amateur game.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

* Where he was jailed for 18 hours in 1911 for violating a Sunday blue law against "gaming" (he was playing tennis).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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