Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University golf team, was yesterday defeated in the opening round of the National Amateur Golf Championship at Merion, 2 and 1, by Jess Sweetser. Finlay led during the early holes of the match, but the accuraie shooting of the winner was the decisive factor. On the sixteenth and seventeenth, Sweetser scored two birdies to win the match...
...sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive into a clump of trees on the home hole. These were his only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played in a U. S. Open. He did it with his mashie niblick, playing doubtful carries short and laying approaches dead. Though...
Five strokes ahead of the nearest pro, Lighthorse Harry Cooper, Jones wavered after lunch, barely stayed safe. He frightened his followers by starting the last nine 4 5 5 5?two over par. On the seventeenth he lost his ball in the water hazard. Then he finished as a champion should?holed a 40-ft. uphill putt on the last green for a birdie it seemed sure he would need...
Last week Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cabled Manager George Engles of Manhattan that he would definitely return to the U. S. next autumn, make his seventeenth U. S. tour, postponed this year on account of an appendectomy (TIME, Dec. 2). Pianist Paderewski has accepted, despite his 69 years, a coast-to-coast tour involving some 75 concerts. The only dispensation he asked: "a mild winter...
...this with the life of the Indians. Each century is taken up in detail, and from many points of view. The religious difficulties, the alarms of witchcraft, the role played by the sea in the life of New England, the struggle with the soil dominate the reels on the seventeenth century...