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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a generation or more the Hungarians have had no peers at the game of table tennis. When the Dowager Lady Swaythling put a cup into international team competition in 1927, the Hungarians proceeded to win it and defend it with monotonous regularity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Threatening Czechs | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Joe was fond of the Cherry Hill prison, having been in it pretty consistently for 20 years. Shortly afterward he was set free-75 and still surprisingly spry. Two months later he was arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Unhappy Horse Thief | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

One of the true criteria to be used in judging the value of a sport is the worth of that sport to a student in after college life. On this basis the two American major sports are golf and tennis. With regard to the latter the University has ample facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF IS GOOD | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

The United States Lawn Tennis Association, ruling body of U. S. amateur tennis, keeps a sharp eye on all promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Future Cuppers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

It was a good instance of how closely the old men of tennis keep their juniors tabbed when the four top-seeded players cleared to the semifinals. But there calculations began to go amiss. Opposed were Isadore Bellis, seeded second, and Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Future Cuppers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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