Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dormie Little Sirs: Your account of the final match of the American Amateur in TIME, Sept. 23, p.50, contains the following: "At the 10th, with Emery dormie. Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands." Rules of Golf of U. S. G. A. for 1935 under "Definitions" (21) reads as follows: "A side is said to be 'dormie' when it is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played." Little was dormie, not Emery...
...accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished Dr. Francis William Aston of Cambridge, who knows as much about isotopes as anyone, stepped up to shake his hand...
...took 4 to Little's 3. On the 15th, Little had a birdie 3 to Emery's 5. At the 16th, with Emery dormie, Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands...
...turn for a few days. The fear that First National, the "Baker Bank," would pare its $25 quarterly payment, sent First National stock tumbling $135 per share to $1,680. Not until Guaranty Trust, First National and other Manhattan banks declared their usual dividends did the bank-share market shake out of its gloom...
Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...