Word: puttering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truly representative national competitions in U. S. athletics is the National Amateur Golf championship. This year, in its 28 sectional qualifying tournaments, 831 silver-spoon and rusty-putter golfers in all corners of the U. S. strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones...
...Ward blazed through the first nine to become seven up. On the 13th, with five holes to play, he was still seven up and national champion. Ward hits super-lengthy drives, on-in-two brassies, crisp irons, but the answer to last week's feat lay in his putter. In the 66 holes he had to play in the last two rounds, he one-putted 29 greens, three-putted only once...
Walter Bowes is 56, Walter H. Wheeler Jr., 42. Walter Bowes is nervous, restless; he hates a desk and office hours, prefers to putter about his home. Walter Wheeler is the reverse, has steady nerves and a passion for detail, likes to organize. One thing this antipodal pair have in common is a love of sailing. In 1929 Yachtsman Bowes sailed his six-meter Saleema to an international championship. In 1938 Yachtsman Wheeler won the Astor cup with his Q class Cottonblossom II. Messrs. Bowes and Wheeler have still another thing in common, their business-Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter...
William Gilbert, who was Queen Elizabeth's personal physician but used his spare time to putter with electricity and magnetism, discovered that when iron is hot it loses its magnetism. That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments...
...Freshman team, after having prepped at Andover. This year he was the second highest scorer in the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League. Last spring as a Sophomore, he won his Major "H" as a result of his work as a shot putter on the track team. Next year's manager will be John Keppel '40, of Eliot House...