Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guineas. Back to Moortown. England, where the Ryder cup was won for Great Britain (TIME, May 6) went U. S. and British professionals last week to play in the Yorkshire Evening News 1,000 guineas ($5,000) tournament. Again, Walter Hagen lost to George Duncan. Leo Diegel won a nickname, "Eagle-Diegel." Joe Turnesa won the 1,000 guineas from sad-faced Herbert Jolly of England by holing a chip shot for an eagle 3 at the 37th hole. Other spectacular moments...
...Leo Wolman, of New York City, since 1919 a member of the faculty of the School for Social Research, author of several books on trade unionism, and member of many U. S. Commissions on industrial relations, unemployment, and kindred subjects, comes to Harvard for the second half of 1929-30 as Wertheim Fellow and lecturer on economics...
Walter Hagen's caddie was nearly blown off a green but Hagen sank his putt. A camera clicked when Leo Diegel was putting. He missed by a foot...
...anthracite mines; when France passed laws forbidding religious orders to own property, Mr. Maloney bought nunneries and monasteries so the inhabitants could remain. He had a plan to settle the trouble between the Popes and Italy by buying a corridor of land from the Vatican to the sea. Pope Leo XIII made him a Papal Marquis, highest title ever given a U. S. layman...
...been expected to win as it won two years ago.* On the first day, when the foursomes were played, the U. S. had led, 2½points to 1½. Loose-jointed young Horton Smith from Joplin, Mo., did not play in the foursomes. Instead he followed Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa who, playing the best match of the two days, beat Britain's Boomer and Duncan seven up and five to go. The U. S. won two matches, dropped one, tied another. By lunchtime the next day, British golf enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading...