Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy pilot down easy...
...gallery always follows Gene Sarazen. The one that got round the first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...
...Gorce is an open course, flat, like most Florida courses, but well trapped. Par isn't often broken. Some of Cruickshank's followers cut over to the tenth and fell in behind Farrell. And when Farrell came up to the sixteenth needing only two par holes to win, all the people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank...
...preparation for the debates on policy preceding the convention Huston Thompson, former secretary of the Federal Trade Commission will speak at the Union this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The meeting will be open to all members of the University Mr. Thompson will speak on "Monopoly and its Relations to the Present Campaign." The general title of the series of lectures and meetings of which this will be the sixth, is "What Should Progressives Advocate in the Coming Campaign...
Lampy has dressed himself up in a new-grass green, and with this appropriate Easter finery steps forth for all the world to view. And, it must be owned, he cuts not a bad figure. In fact, if one's window be open to any of the vagrancies of early spring in Cambridge, one will find the Jester in a delightful mood, albeit a few of the stories and jokes he has for you are distinctly not after his best manner. There are, however, a sufficient number of high spots in his present repertoire to render the ensemble a product...