Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentum of the fish hurtles it out of the water through the hole left by the banana. Quick as a note coming due, the fisherman plunges the banana back into the hole through which the fish has come, cutting off the only possible opening through which it could return to its native habitat...
...would in effect devalue the dollar. If he should choose to change the price daily or hourly he could use the power for much the same purpose as the Stabilization Fund. Therefore when the money bill failed to pass, the Administration was placed in no serious hole, nor did Congress recover any notable power previously delegated. The real issue between the President and Congress was: Who is boss...
...Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...employment for May was off 1.1 points more than seasonally (to 90.1 on its index). Many a U. S. businessman saw a patch of blue sky early in May, when there was a flurry in steel (TIME, May 22), but last week it seemed only to have been a hole in the overcast...