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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

In August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week, with Norman Brookes (now Sir Norman because of "distinguished service to the Empire") looking on,* a new generation of Davis Cuppers from Down Under challenged a new generation of U. S. Davis Cuppers in a war-clouded spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Good-looking, poker-faced Helen Wills Moody, eight times women's singles champion, having tried her hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Act | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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