Word: behemothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare for him, he putted and approached with steady skill...
...infallible sign of a really great murder is the appearance of the Western Union Co.'s giant portable electric switchboard, capable of despatching 20,000 words an hour over 180 wires. This behemoth is also used for such spectacles as Dempsey-Tunney fights, otherwise it sulks in storage...
...shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...
...brass-lunged American Mercury, one T. N. Gillespie, laid out all specialized pedagogy for a thorough flogging. He flogged Deans of Education as representing "the very bottom of American academic ability," the Teachers College at Columbia University as an "up and doing cultural behemoth" with a stock of 37 "pedagogical staples...
...earth-convulsing behemoth, which once...