Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laborite, who is a London-born Jew, took this as an anti-Semitic remark, hurled himself over to the Conservative side of the House and delivered the blow with his open hand, technically an "assault"-which is almost unprecedented in the Mother of Parliaments...
...sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...
Baldish, 33-year-old Harry Cooper has a past-performance chart that dates back to 1927. That was the year he lost the U. S. Open championship to one-eyed Tommy Armour by the slim margin of a 15-ft. putt. For the past five years he has maintained a scoring average that no U. S. pro could equal: he has never finished lower than fourth in annual scoring. Last year his form sheet* revealed that his 1937 average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that...
That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...
...rectangular patterns when the site allowed it. Otherwise they usually conformed to the irregular contours of the land. The narrow streets were essentially footways for getting from one group of buildings to another; their narrowness saved money on paving and protected shop fronts from the wind. Gardens, orchards and open spaces were more common than in any cities since. The medieval town was quiet, its air was fresh, its buildings were in the human scale. "We have tardily begun to realize that our hard-earned discoveries in the art of laying out towns, especially in the hygienic laying...