Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having lunched, he goes motoring (35 m. p. h. minimum speed). Sometimes he goes as far as Bridgeport, to see his good friend, Mrs. Ira Warner. Returning he telephones No. 26 Broadway, transacts business, for he has not completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...
Ever since medieval alchemists spent their days and nights in fruitless attempts to turn common metals into gold (see p. 41), man has engaged himself in many an effort at manufacturing substances which Nature has been niggardly in supplying. Last week came evidence of a notable triumph by Science over Nature. European producers of synthetic nitrogen had so completely destroyed Chile's semimonopoly of natural nitrates that the Chilean producers were glad to sign a price-fixing agreement. Headed by Germany's famed I. G. Farbenindustrie, the European nitrogen industry convincingly demonstrated the superiority of mind over matter...
...poor babies of Manhattan and environs are richer by $130,000, that being their share of the sums paid by 40,000 fight patrons to see last week's Milk Fund bout between Heavyweights Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun in the Yankee Stadium. Herr Schmeling and Senor Uzcudun are richer by $72,500 each, or 40% of the total proceeds. Herr Schmeling is richer by the title, "Champion of Europe," which awkward Senor Uzcudun previously held in a vague way. Fight patrons are richer only by the semi-satisfaction of a hope, the half-answer of a question...
From a window in the locker room of the Winged Foot Golf Club at Mamaroneck, N. Y., you can see the 18th green of the West Course. Through that window last week, Al Espinosa, managing director of the Sportsmen's Country Club at Glencoe, Ill., saw something he will never forget...
Bobby's skinny caddy was holding the pin. At the top of it fluttered a vivid yellow Hag with 18 in black velvet figures sewed on it. Overhead the little white clouds seemed to have stopped moving for the moment. Because of a tree, Espinosa could not see Jones or the white speck that was his ball. But presently the speck rolled out from behind the tree. It had to go up over a bump in the green. Then it dropped out of Espinosa's sight. A second later it dropped out of everyone's sight. The hushed gallery burst...