Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictatorships to right of us, dictatorships to left of us, volley and thunder, expresses the present aspect of democracy in Europe at the present time," said Colonel J. C.'-Wedgewood, former British cabinet minister, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
When the Spanish-American War broke out, Wrenn and Larned, who had volleyed shots in many a heated finals, shot a volley together in Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Wrenn got the typhoid fever. Coming home, he bought a Stock Exchange Seat in 1900 for $50,500, the highest price then on record. For a while he was the Board Member for Day & Heaton; later, with his two brothers he formed the firm of Wrenn Bros., No. 39 Broadway, of which he was a special partner at the time of his death...
Tilden, Johnston, Richards, and Williams, who last year represented the United States in the Davis Cup matches, will all be flashed on the screen tonight. Each of the stars will be shown making all the ground, service, and volley strokes, and the motion is so slow that it is possible to see clearly how the different parts of each stroke are executed...
...slow-motion films, obtained by special arrangement with the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association for October 21, show the leading tennis players of the world making all forms of service and volley strokes. The motion is so retarded and repeated that it is possible for the observer to see, on the screen, exactly how these players execute their strokes...
...betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since no such other causes cropped up, he took his match with ease 6-4, 6-0, 6-4. Thus were the apostles of unlikelihood brought...