Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final score was 291. Watrous had taken 293. And to tie the winning score on the last hole Hagen wanted a 2. He drove and then, with a characteristic gesture, told the boy to take the flag out of the cup. He intended, it appeared, to sink his approach. The ball rushed at the hole, bounced from the lip of the cup, finished in a bunker...
...Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form that afternoon...
...said. If Mr. S. F. Simpson of Glasgow joined your foursome next Sunday, you would admire his game. You would remember him as an exceptionally quiet man who teed his ball very high, who fell back on his heels after driving, and who was a deadly putter. His approach shots might be a little worse than yours if you were playing' well. Still, Mr. Simpson would probably have the best ball all the way around unless the local professional happened to be the fourth man of your foursome, in which event Mr. Simpson would probably be beaten. After playing...
...much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate, as the firm and incorruptible, to the uncertain glamour of an approach to evangelism...
With due and fitting ceremony, and a banquet and speeches, Phi Beta Kappa, high brotherhood of scholastic distinction in U. S. colleges, last week celebrated the approach of the 150th anniversary of its founding, at the Hotel Mayflower, in Washington, D. C. The society's president, President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Eeserve University, was on hand, eruditely genial. Members of the mother chapter were there-President J. A. Chandler and Drs. R. M. Hughes and J. Lesslie Hall, of the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) where (the year after Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts) one John...