Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams, which succeeded Lowell as league golf champion in the last stages of competition, was trimmed by Berkley 6 1/2 to 2 1/2. Flaherty and Severs, playing in the first foursome, split with Knowles and Creekmore of Yale, 1 1/2 to 1 1/2. But the second foursome saw Potts and Berger outplay Mellman and Lowe of Adams, the Gold coasters picking up only half a point when Lowe split his match point with Potts...
...handsome young widower King Leopold III once figured in the schemes of certain statesmen anxious for a union of Belgium and The Netherlands, eager to promote it by securing the marriage of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Neither Leopold nor Juliana saw the matter in this light, but they are on the best of terms. Last week His Majesty accepted the invitation of Her Royal Highness to act as a godfather at the christening of her first child. Princess Beatrix, this week in The Hague...
...meant "everything beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...
...tall, 26-year-old member of the army reserve corps at Chicago's Municipal Airport. One day last week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit...
...benevolent breed of blackbirders, recruiters do not enslave native boys but cart them away, presumably with parental permission, to work in the gold fields at approximately ten shillings a month. For the recruiter, the bounty is ?20 a head for boys willing to indenture themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped...