Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...finalists were both nervous as they started out in the morning. On the first hole Somerville half-topped his first drive, faded a spoon. Goodman topped his second shot. Somerville topped his drive on the second tee. Steadying down, they were all square at the turn, but at the end of the first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant...
...parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...
...Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mrs. Myrtle Crump, 41, jobless school teacher, prepared to spend a second winter with her two children in a tented hole in the ground...
Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...