Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be a safety zone 20 feet in front of each goal beyond which no member of the offensive team may go. One member of the defensive team will be allowed inside it to defend the goal. The holes in the canvas are the goals, one hole counting three points, another two, and the third...
...course is being promoted by several prominent business men of Boston. They have purchased a considerable tract of land, including Weld estate, on the line between Brookline and West Roxbury, on which an 18-hole course has been laid out. Approximately $350,000 have been invested. The stock holders plan to sell shares in the club which will carry with them the privileges of the course and thus avoid the exorbitant initiation fees and annual dues of the ordinary country club...
Suggestions have been plentiful as to the manner of its disposal. Proposals have been made to cut it down in segments, to take it out through a window or to dig a hole around the bottom and let it drop. That which received most popular support was to leave the derrick where it is, using it either for a flag pole or a central chimney...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
...decided success in the three days it has been in use. The daily scores are recorded and offer a good comparison of the merits of pitching candidates. Philip Spaulding '25 at present holds the record with 12 out of 20 perfect attempts to shoot the ball through the hole in the canvas...