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Word: putts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relatively short ranges (600-1,000 miles)," mosquitoes would be useful mainly in and around U. S. bays and harbors. If enemy ships ever got that close to the U. S., said Bill Leahy, the country would do better to call on its God than on a bunch of putt-putts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Putt-Putts Holed | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...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, who won it five times, used to call the National Amateur a nightmare. One flubbed iron, one balky putt, and the ruling champion often finds himself among the spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfers' Golfer | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held their breath, Richard Burton, a Cheshire pro, ambled up to his ball on the 18th green, sank a long putt for a birdie 3 and a 71 that beat Bulla by two strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over There | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight-foot putt while Nelson dropped his for a birdie 4. Wood and Nelson were tied again-with sub-par 68s (Shute shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triple Tie | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds, sent the ball whistling across the ravine to the green, six feet from the cup. When he sank the putt for an eagle, the tournament was his. His record 72-hole total: 279, nine under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Masters' | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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