Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Shute was the defending P. G. A. champion, his match with Open Champion Manero might have been the climax of the tournament. It ended on the 34th green when Manero, who had never been less than i down since the third, just failed to hole a 20-yd. chip shot he needed to keep the match alive. The match was not the climax of the tournament because the final the following day, between Shute and McSpaden, who had nosed out Laffoon, turned out to be as bitterly contested as any engagement in the P. G. A.'s earnest...
...middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything he could get: cutting down trees, playing the piano in a cinema, shovelling off sidewalks. When he rose to be part-time gardener for rich suburbanites, it was easily the best thing in sight...
...blue chip in the woman's magazine business is Hearst's monthly Good Housekeeping. With 2,165,766 circulation at 25? a copy, "Good House" last year booked more pages of advertising, for more money, than any of the lower priced monthlies...
...Moines 48 hours later. Hastily rushed to the press was Governor Landon's own crop insurance plan, to wit: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." Two nights later at the Des Moines fair grounds, the Republican nominee laid down chip-by-chip his full bid for the agricultural vote...
...weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...