Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down his throat. The writer would, however, undertake to try conclusions with any ordinary amateur boxer or wrestler, would gamble on his ability as a fisherman, and if actually necessary take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however, be a contender in a tennis match, golf game or cross country run, for the reason that he has had no taste or training for the latter trinity. The President knows he is not a bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have...
Like all poets, he finds language inadequate; is forced back upon "match-ends of burnt experience human enough to be understood." But from his match-ends he extracts white heat, terrific convulsions, monstrous images, without more linguistic violence than a harsh ellipsis and radical translations of character. He pictures...
...part of it is constructed of flies' wings; an instrument ten times as sensitive as Dr. Abbot's last radiometer, with which, "if the Earth were flat and the atmosphere perfectly transparent, it would have been possible to have measured in California the heat of a match struck on the Mississippi River...
Tilden in the semifinals, 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3. Said Mr. Tilden: "Age, I think it is. I used to win this sort of match myself. But are we downhearted...
...used only nine putts on seven consecutive holes-putts varying between 35 and 12 feet-sunk with a borrowed putter. His score for the first 18 holes was 69, breaking the course record by two strokes. After that it was only a matter of time before Mr. Gunn won match and championship...