Word: merion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal of Upper Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia and, more recently, a $30,000-a-year coordinator of school services, Jay Smith, 50, carved a name for himself as a tough administrator. An Army Reserve colonel, he was known as a no-nonsense expert on school discipline who once advocated expelling 60 "dangerous" students because of their "criminalistic" behavior...
When the D didn't come through, First, a native of nearby Merion, Pa., was there--delighting the mass of hometown supporters on hand by blocking, catching, or smothering everything the Quakers could throw at him. He finished with 16 saves...
...this season of snow the fairways of The Country Club, where the Crimson linksters normally cavort in a sunnier clime, look like so many billowing sheets left out to dry. Each day the linksters awake and pine for the white fastness of Brookline to reveal pristine swathes of Merion bluegrass. Each night they gloomily retire...
This is the international tournament in which Harvard's number one golfer Alex Vik played in this fall as a member of the Norwegian team. The American entry of Nicklaus, Deane Beman, Bob Gardner, and Bill Hyndman won the event held at Merion that year with Jack shooting rounds of 66, 67, 68 and 68, a full 18 strokes ahead of Hogan's total of 287 when he won the U.S. Open...
...plus scoreboard-only in concrete, not painted copper. Because the value of copper has risen almost as drastically as ballplayers' salaries since 1923, the original façade was melted down and sold. Perhaps it is now plumbing in a renovated brownstone. The playing surface is still alive: Merion blue grass, in texture irregular enough to promise a few historic bounces and in color a nice uneven biological green...