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  • When Stardust flew through the stream, it extended its tennis-racket shaped aerogel collector, picking up and storing the interstellar particles.

    Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: January 15-17, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

  • The tether will conduct 20,000 volts through two insulated aluminum filaments, wrapped around a core of Vectran, a high-strength, lightweight fiber used in everything from tennis-racket strings to the airbags that cushion NASA spacecraft.

    Windmills in the Sky | Impact Lab 2005

  • But tennis-racket companies are making too much money to let wood return without a fight: in 1975 the Dunlop Maxply -- as good a wood racket as then existed -- cost $25; by 1980 a decent oversized racket cost at least $100, and now many popular models cost more than $150.

    The Feel of Wood 1995

  • But tennis-racket companies are making too much money to let wood return without a fight: in 1975 the Dunlop Maxply -- as good a wood racket as then existed -- cost $25; by 1980 a decent oversized racket cost at least $100, and now many popular models cost more than $150.

    The Feel of Wood 1995

  • But tennis-racket companies are making too much money to let wood return without a fight: in 1975 the Dunlop Maxply -- as good a wood racket as then existed -- cost $25; by 1980 a decent oversized racket cost at least $100, and now many popular models cost more than $150.

    The Feel of Wood 1995

  • Teenage girls in Tokyo have lately favored carrying black nylon tennis-racket bags, labeled Dunlop or Donnay, as fashion accessories and statements of self.

    No-Fat City 1986

  • Teenage girls in Tokyo have lately favored carrying black nylon tennis-racket bags, labeled Dunlop or Donnay, as fashion accessories and statements of self.

    No-Fat City 1986

  • Do you remember that I bear a scar now, inflicted by a tennis-racket in your hand, when you were ten years old?

    The Last Woman Ross Beeckman

  • Usually he was laden with bundles -- provisions, shoes from the cobbler, a tennis-racket restrung, and an armful of books.

    An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • He returned towards the pavilion, so far forgetting himself in his pleasure as to swing about his bat like a tennis-racket.

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

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