Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeth. After the start, Evans found his iron shots undependable and he was so tired from winning his morning match, against onetime Public Links Champion Frank Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where he looked up prematurely on a short approach shot then missed a 5-ft. putt. Next day in the semi-finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi...
...upperclassmen of the College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling, and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked upon the invasion of the first-year Class as the approach of doom. For of 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, bellowing "Reinhardt", the prospect was not too pleasant...
...Jewish stores. C. A 28-year-old Jew invited an Aryan girl to the movies, and she sued him. A Nürnberg court, sentencing the Jew to a month's imprisonment, reminded him that the laws of Nürnberg were enacted to "prevent the erotic approach of Jews towards Aryan girls...
...July 19, bigfooted, popular Pitcher Gomez beat Cleveland for his 13th victory of the season. Superstitious, he believed that the 13th win might be a hard one to add to. A believer in astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside...
...reason for keeping dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where shotguns waited to bring them plummeting...