Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golfers, perpetually exasperated at themselves, are never satisfied with their equipment. Four years ago they all took up steel shafts. Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts...
Boston's Dr. John Jeffries, with Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard in 1785, was first to cross the English Channel in a balloon. Struggling to keep the bag aloft, they cast out successively sand ballast, wings, ornaments, all scientific apparatus (except the barometer), biscuits, apples, oars, moulinet, anchors, cords, finally their outer garments...
...John, B. Rackliffe '34 of Newton Jacob E. Rubinow '33 of South Manchester, Connecticut, Alan C. Russell '35 of Brooklyn, New York, George C. St. John, Jr. '33 of Wallingford, Connecticut, Richard S. Salant '35 of New York City, Walter S. Salani '33 of New York City, Robert D. Sand '35 of New York City, Herbert P. Schoen '35 of Glerr Falls, New York, Frederick C. Schuldt Jr. '33 of St. Paul, Minnesota, Carl Seeman, Jr. '35 of New York City, Harry Shershevsky '35 of Dorchester, Abraham S. Silin '33 of Erie, Pennsylvania William S. Sims, Jr. '33 of Boston...
...gusty December day in 1903, on the slope of a sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran alongside steadying the wing. The ship left the ground, jerkily trod the wind for twelve marvelous seconds, nosed into the sand. A powered airplane had flown...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay a quarter-mile to the north. Sea winds had budged Kill Devil Hill some 50 ft. a year before Army engineers anchored it with hardy grasses and shrubs...