Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting...
...hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already in use on land planes. Wheel brakes can be thrown...
...Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood to the rising Soviet sun; their friends, enemies, mistresses and Bunny's "Wobbly" comrades for whom great sympathy is obtained by their physical dis tresses including suicide by drowning in an oil well. All actual personages save the three Presidents of the era - Wilson, Harding...
...regatta will be officially opened this afternoon when the combination crews meet. The Harvard combination outfit has not been at all impressive in practice, but the last minute shift which put E. B. Hanley '27 at stroke improves its chance. Hanley, who rowed 7 on the 150-pound crew, is a splendid oar and has great endurance...
...Combination eight was also out, but Coach C. S. Heard '25 has made a radical shift in the personnel of his boat and spent the morning coaching his charges. E. B. Hanley '27, formerly rowing in the number 7 seat in the 150-pound crew has been moved up to stroke the Combination eight, taking the place of B. J. Harrison '29 who has been moved back to number 6. D. R. Kroell '29 who has been rowing in the number 6 seat dropped out of the boat...