Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis porches, the question of the hour was: "Can Tilden add a fifth consecutive year to the string of National championships he blazons across the top of his column in the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...Valera and his followers, a noisy minority, cannot see the wood for the trees, and they continue to advocate an Irish Republic- possibly because such advocacy has become a habit. For the same reason he possibly continues to hate England. Thus, always playing on the same string, he stirs wild enthusiasm in the bosoms of those who think as he does. His speech...
...precocious. As the campaign goes on, the accounts of this precocity will be amplified. At any rate he was graduated from Washington and Lee University at the age of 19. Three years later he took his LL.B. at the same place. From 1915 on, he annexed a whole string of LL.D.' here, in England, in Scotland...
Since then, futuristic string-quartet composers have used quarter-tones, and really achieved genuine new effects with them. Expert violinists can manage them, with a little practice (beginners without any practice at all). At last, however, a quarter-tone piano keyboard has been invented, by one Alois Haba, a young Czech pupil of the daring Franz Schreker. His instrument was the chief exhibit at the International Music Festival held in Prague last month...
...Glen Cove, L. I., two Australian Davis Cup players were crushed by second-string Americans in an invitation tournament. Shimizu, Japanese Davis Cup leader, defaulted. Of the Australians, Frederick Kalms went down in the second round before E. F. Chandler of California; Pat O'Hara Wood before S. Howard Voshell, Long Island southpaw, in the finals. Intercollegiate doubles champions Thalheimer and White of Texas wrested the team play from the Australians...