Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With every starting position settled, therefore, the only questions of advancement are whether or not the top men know their stuff and how far the reserves have come along. Without doubt the Varsity know their fundamentals and are far more versed in trickery than they were even after two or three games last year...
Whether this area can be saved even with the strictest precautions observed seems doubtful to Shepard, and while planning for the safety of Petersham's 700 inhabitants, he more or less expects the town to be leveled to the ground along with an inestimable part of the surrounding country...
...chance of being included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott was still in the tournament...
...whiskey out of a Coca-Cola bottle after every hole, kept the gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous U. S. Amateurs but had never before reached the first...
...removed and square nose streamlined) he regained his crown with a speed of 357 m.p.h., only 83 m.p.h. less than the fastest man has flown. He reached a velocity of 525 feet a second (the muzzle velocity of a high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just...