Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparatively little chance to play on grass; the outdoor season in Denmark is too short. Wimbledon's tennis fathers knew him by reputation: a dangerous player in the indoor game, sometimes lamentably given to clowning, kicking the ball and glowering at umpires. But they saw no reason to seed him among the top ten at Wimbledon this year. Last week they sat watching nervously as Denmark's Nielsen made his bid to become the first unseeded player in history to win the Wimbledon title. He kept them on edge to the last...
...Scott Co. (grass seed) paid him $7,500 for a color movie showing weeds curling up and dying under a chemical weed killer. After a World War II Navy hitch, Ott spent three years making a two-minute movie which showed primroses "dancing" to the rhythm of a Strauss waltz. He did this after discovering that he could make the primroses droop or rise by controlling their moisture and temperature. The movie was such a success that Ott quit his bank job, built big new greenhouses, installed cameras and elaborate timing mechanisms to work them. In four years his gross...
With a 1-2 record, the varsity is seeded third, behind Princeton and Pennsylvania in that order. But Coach Ted Reynolds expects his revised eight "may surprise a lot of people." He has switched Randy Seed from five to six spot, while moving Mal Rohrbough from five oar on the J.V.s to that seat on the varsity. Bill Coughlin dropped to the Juniors...
...varsity, Captain Dick Lincoln will stroke, with Oliver Leland at seven, Randy Seed six, Mal Rohrbough five, and Bill Lindemulder at four. Bill Gray is three, Frank Maybank two, and Joe Brown how. George Notter will...
Howell said chances of preventing the rain could be increased to 2 to 1 if the University would be willing to pay for an airplane to chase and seed with dry ice those clouds which get away from the generators...