Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change from amateur to professional has affected my game in a way I really cannot describe. Perhaps it is a feeling of obligation to the public instead of the old idea of simply hitting the ball. ... I shall do better when I get acquainted with your greens. . . . The sand in these bunkers is heavier and coarser grained than the sort I am accustomed to at home. ... I fancy a heavier niblick might help...
Over West Virginia back country roads, made muddy by weeks of rain, ploughed a train of automobiles one day last week bearing 49 Catholic priests and Bishop John Joseph Swint of Wheeling. The party drew up before the small churchyard at Sand Fork. Forming in procession, the men of God marched into the church. There Bishop Swint solemnly handed purple robes, a purple biretta and a white lace cotta (surplice) to a wrinkled-faced, white-haired old priest named Thomas Aquinas Quirk whom Pope Pius XI had elected to invest with the title Monsignor...
...this way," a droll Sylt salt observed. "We've got a bird sanctuary all right and the birds are laying fine. Some of them lay long-range cannon behind the sand dunes. Others have only laid gun emplacements. One old hen, I noticed, laid a small gunpowder factory...
...necessary to wait for the logical corollary of this trend--fewer lecture courses, accompanied by vastly more than the present emphasis on lectures which stimulate as well as instruct. But when prosperity is once more upon us--when the Blue Eagle's head is hidden, ostrich-like, in the sand, when Hour Exams have been abolished in reality and not only in theory--Harvard must, if only to pass it on to the next generation, revive the long lost art of lecturing...
Last week farmers in ten Midwestern States had sand in their beards, in their hair, in their ears, in their eyes, in their mouths, in their pockets, in their pants, in their boots, in their milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined...