Word: exactments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golfer, at Princeton a good ballplayer. Therein he differed from Aldrich, a son of Harvard, almost as sharply as in his prose. Aldrich cared little for sport aside from horses. He liked tweeds, quiet, his 400-acre estate near Barrytown, N. Y. His articles were always calm, stately, exact...
...story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including an outdoor skating rink...
Crack! A golf ball soared off the first tee at the Pittsburgh Field Club, dwindled to a white speck, landed on the fairway, rolled to a stop. Officials noted its exact position: 313 yd. 17 in. from the spot where it had been hit. That drive, hit last Sunday afternoon before a big gallery of other professionals, got its author, 24-year-old Professional Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., $200, first prize in Sports Illustrated'?, first annual driving contest, held as a curtain-raiser to the Professional Golfers Association annual tournament which started the next...
...Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take up the 100 ft. of slack in the wire and trip the time trigger. To the winner of this elemental lottery, begun in 1917, goes the pool...
...This has been an interesting case, with novel problems of law presented. ... I could find no exact precedent . . . but I did find an Indiana statute which reads: 'No marriage shall be void for the lack of a license or other formality required by the law, if either of the parties thereto believed it to be a legal marriage at the time.' My construction of that would be that if all they did was to sign an application for a license, as they both did, and one believed it a legal marriage...