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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that a man had great natural ability, handled his position easily, and became an outstanding player, was, in my experience, an almost sure indication that he would not be a good instruction coach. I saw it tried again and again with the same result. A similar situation has proved more or less true in golf. The teachers of such great players as "Bobby" Jones, Alexa Stirling, and others have not been tournament winners themselves, and I believe I am safe in saying that the outstanding professional golfers can point to few, if any, of their pupils who have also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARY, SCHWAB, ROCKEFELLER, AND FORD MENTIONED FOR GRIDIRON COACHING POSTS | 12/11/1925 | See Source »

Those who thought that Brown would be so much cream on Colgate's brush owned their error when they saw Jackson Keefer bend even such stiff bristles as the redoubtable Eddie Tryon for gain after gain. Even after Keefer was taken out with a broken rib, Brown stuck to its color. Score: Brown 14, Colgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...needless to say that readers of the Times were shocked. They saw that the august newspaper whose pontifications determine their views had been duped into reprinting as a quotation from a college journal an editorial which had been written in its own offices. The more choleric among them sat down to compose heated letters. "Let the right hand of the Times," they suggested, "find out what its left is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flummery | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

That was great; good stuff, and new too; what other paper had the courage to tell the truth about Alexandra? Since the readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flummery | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...saw ye bonnie Lesley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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