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Word: lucent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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