Word: kurds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What seemed to be the coup de grace to the Kurd revolt in Kurdistan (TIME, Mar. 9, 23) was administered last week by the Turks. The news came through in a few brief words which said...
...semi-final battle to find out who was the woman's golf champion of Florida. These three women knew each other well; they have succeeded one another for the last three years as national champions - Miss Glenna Collett (1922), Miss Edith Cummings (1923), Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd (1924). But it must not be supposed that they were merely competing in a friendly three-cornered way among themselves for the Florida championship. There was another with them-one Miss Frances Madfield of Milwaukee. She was not, as they were, famed; was she as mighty as they...
Providence, R. I., moved among them, wondering if she could win an other leg on the Griswold Trophy. As the week wore on, the seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd, of Philadelphia, disposed of her opponents most stoutly, coursing around often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round...
Miss Glenna Collett, Providence 76 87 163 Mrs. D. C. Kurd, Philadelphia 90 87 177 Mrs. G. H. Stetson, Philadelphia 89 90 179 Mrs. H. A. Jackson, Greenwich 88 95 183 The last round of the tourney was played in a high wind, a fact which accounted for the higher scores over opening day figures. On the opening day young Miss Collett's score of 76 was only two strokes over the men's par for the course - no mean feat in itself. But her excellent golf was knocked to pieces the following day, mainly on account...