Word: silver
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beat Dwight three out of five sets, with a vantage set, his score being 6-2, 6-0, 9-7. He takes the Horsman trophy, a diamond studded racket and a cup offered by the Casino, and a bronze plaque with a representation of a tennis court done in silver wire...
...Crook has recrossed the Mexican border into Arizona, and his command is encamped on Silver Creek, at the southern end of the Chiricahuas. He has lost no man during the campaign...
Mild sarcasm of the Courant regarding Harvard: "Not to carry a silver-headed cane to breakfast is considered in 'bad form,' and the man who does not own a real bull-pup is an outcast." We are crushed...
...tennis association has been organized by the students rooming in Felton Hall. A series of games will shortly be played for a silver...
...Columbia bicycle prize cup offered by the Pope Manufacturing Company, to be competed for in amateur twenty-mile bicycle races, is in the form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with...