Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove a golf ball 50 yards farther than Bobby Jones. He could put an approach shot within ten feet of the pin from any distance up to 200 yards. He bet he could knock a ball three-quarters of a mile in five shots and won easily. He said he could beat Bing Crosby at golf using a shovel, a rake and a baseball...
Died. John Benedict Fehr, 78, custodian of the Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle; in Salt Lake City. For 34 years he proudly demonstrated the Tabernacle's famed acoustics to 30,000,000 visitors by dropping a pin over a balcony railing, whispering scriptural lines until the pin resounded on the floor below...
Harvard will pin its hopes chiefly on Captain William B. Cavin '37 in the 145-pound class, who has lost only once in three years of dual meet competition. William T. Glendinning '38, in the heavyweight division, who went through the past season unbeaten in dual meets, and Lorrin E. Woodman '37, former Freshman captain...
This mumbo jumbo confusion of classics and culture is just the sort of thing which Harvard's bewhiskered sages like to pin on poor, confused President Hutchins out at Chicago. It is too bad we have to look at it here. They might give the non-Latinists diplomas written in English, or something like that...
...second addition to the campaign was Alf Landon's final effort to pin down Franklin Roosevelt on his intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...