Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletics is the National Amateur Golf championship. This year, in its 28 sectional qualifying tournaments, 831 silver-spoon and rusty-putter golfers in all corners of the U. S. strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones, who won it five times, used to call...
Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...
...northern shore of Palestine's Sea of Galilee lies Tabgha, one of the Holy Land's lushest garden spots. Anciently, scholars believe, it was Bethsaida. It boasts a mosaic pavement and an altar stone, fragments of the Roman church of the Loaves & Fishes which was built to commemorate Christ's miracle on the other side of the lake. To Tabgha in the past 30 years have gone tourists, British officials, archeologists, Bible students, to visit not the Roman relics but the big, blue-eyed, square-bearded monk who discovered them, Father John Tapper...
...Shores. Last week as fighting began the Mediterranean again took its place as a decisive theatre of war. Unlike the Baltic, where Germans and Poles clashed headon, where battle-lines and objectives were clear, the Mediterranean was a maze of variables. It was crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French...