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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis (including the annual fall Yardling tournament), squash, fall baseball, and the newly organized Yard inter-dormitory touch football (a part of the ever-increasing House athletic program under the direction of Adolph Samborski '25) are other athletic enticements. Don''t be too down-hearted if your posture is censured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra-Curricular Positions Await 1942 | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Last week, while Don Budge was further demonstrating his invincibility by breezing through the Newport Invitation tournament in his first appearance in singles competition on U. S. courts this summer, the Australian Davis Cuppers (Quist & Bromwich) were at Longwood-proving their proficiency by taking all five matches from the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cuppers | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

When U. S. Tennis Champion Donald Budge returned to the U. S. three weeks ago with three of this season's foreign tennis crowns (Australian, French, English) on his carroty head, he turned his thoughts to defense of the Davis Cup, scheduled for Labor Day weekend at Germantown, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cuppers | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

When Riggs makes his Davis Cup debut next week, international tennis will witness a display of court histrionics reminiscent of the days of Tilden. Riggs mannerisms include a Charlie Chaplin walk, laughter after a good shot, clenched fists after a bad one. Because he often moves his lips when in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cuppers | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

In the ''stepmother country'' she found that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stepmother Country | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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