Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tables, houses, barns and animals, and pasted them on the walls. Arithmetic teachers played grocery store, tried to relate their blackboard figures to matters their pupils would understand ("We must keep these numbers in a row just like rows of soldiers, or just like horses walking to a water hole"). Counselors pinned up posters that hammered at the homely rules of hygiene...
...selection of middle-group courses ("for undergraduates and graduates") varies suddenly from year to year, sometimes leaving the concentrator with a hole where he had been planning an important course, and other times presenting him with a surplus of specially desirable courses in the same term. Some courses are given only once every two or three years, so long range planning is desirable, if not too effective...
...Sprint. By the twelfth hole Ferrier knew that all he had to do was to play par golf and the tournament would be his by three strokes. Instead, his trusty putter began to vibrate under the tension, shook him into misses for a costly 75. Demaret backed into the title by two strokes. His winning score for 72 holes: a five-under-par 283. The runners-up: Ferrier (285), Snead (287), and Hogan and Texas' Byron Nelson (288 apiece...
...ended last week after one year of battling by the corporation giants. Its conclusion came with the appearance of RCA's long playing record, patterned after Columbia's model. Now the consumer has three different record styles to choose from: the old record at 78 rpms, Victor's doughnut-hole model at 45 rpms, and the long playing ones at 33 1/3 rpms. These three will now compete on an equal footing, for the same material is available on all speeds...
...England District as well as civilian College students had to report to the University switchboard. While there is nothing quite so glamorous in the way of public service these days, operators are often called on to do more than put the right plug in the right hole for many callers. Of people wanting information, contest enterers are the most demanding; they ply the Harvard operators with an infinite variety of obscure queries. And then there are those who just want to know where a street in Cambridge is, or, as in the case of at least one youthful student, what...