Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tether, so it was hauled in. A greater ocean depth than ever before discovered had been found. The greatest ocean depth previously discovered was 32,113 ft.?found by a German vessel off the coast of Mindanao (Philippines) in 1912. How much deeper the hole off Japan may be, none can tell. At any rate, it is a great deal deeper than the deepest part of the Atlantic yet found? 27,922 ft. just east of Haiti...
...golf ball soared through the night. Stars twinkled overhead, night winds sighed as the ball landed, bounded, rolled up on a putting green unaccustomed to such nocturnal visitations. On the green, the ball moved steadily toward, was swallowed up by, a dark little shadow-the hole. No fairy-flight nor golfer's fevered dream, this. Back in the direction from which the ball had come, 246 yards over hump and hummock, stumpy little Gene Sarazen, onetime U. S. open champion, grinned and chaffed with many bystanders as he cracked out other balls into the night from the first...
...This possibility had already been demonstrated by four Houston Texans (TIME, Aug. 25), who played a full 18-hole round with the aid of luminous paint on their balls, searchlights on tees and greens...
...Coach Roper had brought up a steam-driven wedge, he would not have received better results than he did from his line of forwards. A gaping hole was awaking the Tiger carrier every time; an impenetrable blockade was awaiting the Crimson runner. A day before the game Princeton undergraduates had said "Watch Beatile." Those who took their advice saw one of the prettiest exhibitions of line play that has been seen in the Stadium for many years. He was uncontrollable as he plunged through the Harvard attack or pushed aside the Crimson defense to make a path for a driving...
...links in Sussex, England, demonstrating to her countrywomen that she, aged 22, is by far the ablest golfemale whom great Britain-and perhaps the world- possesses. It was the third time in as many years that Miss Wethered had made this ladies' championship demonstration. In her six 18-hole matches this year, she permitted none of her opponents save Miss Cecil Leitch, semifinalist, to survive beyond the 14th green. Miss Leitch reached the 15th. In the 36-hole final, Miss D. R. Fowler walked back to the clubhouse from the 29th...