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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building up a cone. Most likely it has been in that process for centuries." Superstitious natives think otherwise. Some say the Didicas Rocks are the steeples of an old Spanish church, submerged long ago by God to punish some wicked Spanish friars. The smoking crater, they insist, is a hole in the church dome, a chimney for incense being burned by the long-dead friars as an act of repentance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...appeared in eight West End plays, and kept on climbing. In 1929 he married Elsa Lanchester, who had played his secretary in Arnold Bennett's Mr. Prohack. Elsa, a redhead, was the toast of the Bloomsbury intellectuals. She had danced with Isadora Duncan, was part-owner of a hole-in-the-wall nightclub, and was getting tired of being called "elfin." In her elfin book, Charles Laughton and I, Elsa says they first became interested in one another when they discovered that, though ordinarily gabby, they were practically dumb when they were alone together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Happy Ham | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...HOGAN, the professional golfer, is a man of tremendous composure and no small talk. He has been known to go an entire 18 holes without once speaking to his caddy. A golfer playing with him just about has to hole out with a brassie from several hundred yards away before Hogan is moved to say, "Good shot." Other pros, the kind who get sick at their stomachs and take to Benzedrine during big tournaments, are not anxious to play in his threesome. His presence, silent and austere, makes them tense up and miss shots. The thing few people suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Young Ideas | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white-hot. He carded another 66, smashed the tournament record with his 72-hole score of 266, eight strokes better than the total of Runner-Up Al Besselink. Pocketing the $2,000 prize for his 22-under-par romp, Burke cocked a calculating eye at next month's prestige-heavy Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga. Said he: "I have hopes of holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Where Father Left Off | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...when the record business was good (sales were close to $200 million last year) and getting better. Liberty's explanation for the cuts: 1) record prices were too high, 2) manufacturers were ready to cut them, and 3) the list prices have been violated left & right for months. Hole-in-the-wall shops have not only been selling Victor and Columbia records at 30% or more off list, but selling pirated or bootlegged brands even cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Bargain Man | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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