Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...
...make any investigation of the Switzes, their family or their friends. Just to be sure, Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in one end of each...
...help Army postmen out of their financial hole, the emergency airmail bill in Congress provides all those on airmail duty with a $5 per day expense allowance. But for a fortnight the House and Senate shuttled the bill inconclusively back & forth while flyers ruefully counted their pennies...
Pinehurst, N. C. March 26--Both Bob by Jones and Horton Smith lost today as Johnny Dawson, Western amateur, scored a hole-in-one for a low card of 55 in an exhibition engagement with Jones Smith and Ed Dudley in the first public match with the new golf ball, treated with a "shot...
...years. Waving his bottle, he made his speech: "Until the past few weeks, when I'd come to Manila to look up my partners, it was practically a question of begging enough money to meet my payrolls. This time it's different. . . . Any crook could finance a hole in the ground in five minutes in Manila, and he wouldn't even be asked where the hole was." Proof of Old Tom's hole was in his bottle-glittering full of gold dust. Last week when the two biggest gold mines in the Philippines announced their dividends...