Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston's Brains became undisputed world hockey champions when they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 2 to 1, tonight, to take a best-out-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. The Bruins took four games to one for the Leafs...
First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer...
...downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds, sent the ball whistling across the ravine to the green, six feet from the cup. When he sank the putt for an eagle, the tournament was his. His record 72-hole total: 279, nine under...
...BOSTON--The Toronto Maple Leafs tonight evened the best four-out-of-seven games series for the Stanley Cup at 1-all by defeating the Boston Bruins 3-2 in overtime before a capacity crowd of 16,589 in the Boston Garden...
...ambassador in a throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's birthday, gives her a present, discovers a letter from her lover, pulls a pistol, shoots her. While two ambulance surgeons carry out the body, he moans that life means nothing more to him, gulps a cup of tea and jumps out the window...