Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleek transport drifting in to a landing, flaps extended like an old lady spreading her skirts as she sits down; a lean beacon fingering the dark. An airline is all these things, and it is a dollar-&-cents business. Last week the U. S. airline which once was shakier than most in dollars & cents took its place in the major league of Big Business-the stock of American Airlines, previously on the Curb, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
...matches are 18 holes, which means that luck rather than superior skill is likely to decide the outcome. At St. Anne's last week, Little had more good luck than bad. In the first round, playing shaky golf, he nosed out an opponent who was even shakier, one up. In the next rounds, while he was playing better, most of the British golfers conceded the best chance of beating him, like Jack McLean, Cyril Tolley and Leslie Garnett, were being eliminated from the tournament. Before the semi-finals he gave his expatriate U.S. opponent, Robert Sweeny, a few hints...