Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...
...Gene Sarazen, holder of the U. S. and British Open Golf Championships: a 72-hole match against Olin Dutra, U. S. professional champion, for the "unofficial championship of the world"; score: 11 up, 10 to play; at Coral Gables...
...Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
...result was the same. Huge savings could be effected by elimination of these costly duplications. R.G. Dun & Co. is proud of the fact that Abraham Lincoln while an Illinois lawyer was one of their correspondents. Still in their files is a Lincoln report noting a rat hole in the office of a concern he was investigating suggesting that it "should be looked into...
...read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...