Word: puts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite to win the British Amateur Golf Championship in June 1938. He never reached the quarterfinals. In the Walker Cup matches played fortnight later, Goodman lost both his matches and the U. S. lost the Walker Cup for the first time since the cup was put...
Hopefully the reporters put it all down. For days they had been following the dewy-eyed romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen. The Herricks did not want Eileen to marry George. Eileen could not be reached to find out what she wanted. So, George, claiming that the Herricks were holding Eileen a prisoner against her will, got from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl...
While France's Paul Reynaud and Britain's Sir John Simon put their heads together to strengthen the external economy of the Allies (see above), one of Britain's leading economists advanced a notable plan to strengthen Britain's internal economy, to help pay for the war while it is being fought, to help smooth the economic bumps which must be felt when it is over. Author was "The Stinger in the Triple Bromide"-Economist John Maynard Keynes, who, as a member of the Economic Advisory Council and secretary of the Royal Economic Society, frequently stimulates...
...like anchored mines after they break loose, their danger period is supposed to be limited to one hour. A small submarine can carry 20 mines, can plant them through specially constructed mine tubes while submerged if necessary. Larger craft have special devices for submarine egg-laying and can put down 40 or more charges per trip...
This week the 18 German divisions that did not march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...