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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From these modest beginnings Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. has grown into a mammoth holding company with 165 subsidiaries, 66,000 stockholders and 93,000 employees. Its 61 factories (23 outside the United Kingdom) turn out golf balls, tennis balls, foam rubber, tires, tubes, 'raincoats; its Malayan rubber plantations (92...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wheel of Fortune | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

How had she done it? Not, apparently, by being a grind. "It may sound terrible," she said, "but I averaged about five dates a week." An accomplished pianist, she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, played plenty of tennis, even joined the chorus line at the university's spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those German Schools! | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

¶ At Newport, R.I., Intercollegiate Tennis Champion Hamilton Richardson, 20, sixth ranking player in the U.S., fought through a four-hour final, longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Relatively new as an excuse for international competition, parachute jumping is too full of spine-jerking thrills ever to become a popular pastime. But the careful jumpers in Burgundy last week seemed set on proving that a dive into empty air need be no more dangerous than a snappy game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jumping Russians | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Under Managing Editor Sidney L. James, former assistant managing editor of LIFE, 50 editorial staffers put together a book packed with color pictures, features and spot sports news. This week's lead story: an account of the British Empire Games in Vancouver, B.C. (see SPORT). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Vol. I, No. 1 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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