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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The speaker at last week's National Press Club luncheon in Washington was introduced as an "All-American Russian." He was short, of average build, blue-eyed, grey-haired, wearing a neat and conservative suit; his air of aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATS: Smiling Mike | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rogues' Gallery | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Cole started to fiddle with complex antennas in 1955, was soon picking up a babble of languages but no picture. Then he set up a great rhombic aerial, a "V" that spread over 80 ft. of ground. In came a ghostly television image from London, 5,200 miles away. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Bounce | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

The 1957 Immorality Act forbids sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. In the dock, Keyser, owner of two dairies and a former tennis champion of Northern Transvaal, pleaded: "I beg to be released with a warning. I was private secretary to the Prime Minister and have a wife and two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Prime Minister's Secretary | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Felt declared that among the most pressing needs of the athletic department are reconstruction of badly irregular surfaces on the intramural playing fields, and renovation of the tennis courts. He said that the addition of the eighth House will create a need for expansion of playing areas.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Gifts Add Nearly $300,000 To Athletic Fund | 1/29/1958 | See Source »

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