Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this one. No one nowadays is likely to duplicate John Ball's extraordinary record. Unlike its equivalent in the U. S., the British Amateur is played without qualifying rounds. A golfer needs to be exceedingly lucky as well as able to reach, through a long succession of 18-hole matches, the 36-hole final. At Hoylake last week, golfers who had never been heard of before, golfers once famed and long forgotten, popped up as though they had been hiding under stones. After a week of play, most of them had popped down again, leaving four semifinalists of whom...
...called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
...year-old Scotch golf professional who beat Bobby Jones in a play-off for the Open in 1925 and has lately been so discouraged by his putting that he contemplated retiring: the Metropolitan Open, with 291 for four rounds; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Olin Dutra, defending champion, made a hole-in-one on his third round, came in fourth with...
...fact that the University in hiring student waiters deducts part of their tuition charges instead of paying them directly, there is a double economy possible, since the salaries now paid the waitresses could be used for other University expenses. And the bad effects on the House Plan as a hole which squch a change might make can easily be overestimated, especially if the change is to be a purely temporary...
...last week at Curtiss Airport, L. I. a group of men was observed stretching a huge, soiled piece of cloth between two poles alongside a trench. A stovepipe was rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above...