Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds. Such a team would pull 10 loaded coal wagons on pavement. On different types of roads varying loads could be pulled, grading from concrete through brick and asphalt to dirt. The two horses weighed...
Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
...Philippines. There were promising signs for the future in a satisfactory increase of the school population, more economy in Government, prosecution of those who all but wrecked the Philippine National Bank. The report dealt at length with how the Government was trying to climb out of the hole in which it had been led by the Bank fiasco (TIME, Aug. 27). The story in facts and figures: ¶ The Philippine National Bank, having invested recklessly and dishonestly, has lost in its six years of operation 75,000,000 pesos." Its operating loss is now about 600,000 pesos a year...
...will fear the Argentine to pieces in the early rounds. The result will lie in Firpo's ability to pick up the pieces. He must allow himself to be pounded to a pulp dispassionately. He must retain enough vitality to explode the dynamite of his right hand in the hole which the champion must leave in his defense before the fight is done. Expert opinion judges him unskilled to do these things...
...Marine Biological Labratory at Woods Hole, Mass., celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation by Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz, famed Swiss-American naturalist (1807-1873), who became Professor of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The first laboratory was on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that...