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...distance of Cooper's 301, but his putting was becoming pathetic and his nerves had been jarred by a spectator's motion picture camera. However, Armour reached the tee of the last (457-yard) hole to find that he needed a birdie 3 to tie Cooper. Wood smote rubber-and Armour's ball traveled 275 yards down the middle of the fairway. Iron smote rubber-and Armour's ball made a 180-yard parabola to the green, 15 feet from the cup. For four minutes Armour studied his putt. Then, there was a tap, a roll...
When the University nine lines up against Georgetown on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock today, it will be facing a team that has already taken its measure. On April 21, at Washington, trailing by 6 to 2, the Blue and Gray rose in the eighth inning and smote the offerings of F. B. Cutts '28 for four runs. J. N. Barbee '28 replaced Cutts, and a pinch hitter lined out a double, scoring the tying and winning runs...
...yard behind Lord Burghley. On the second day of the Penn Carnival last week Lord Burghley and his colleagues showed gentlemen from Yale and Pennsylvania how to win a 480-yard shuttle relay in a nasty rain, without knocking over a single hurdle. The U. S. boys slipped, floundered, smote down barriers, were almost out of sight when Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this...
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks. The British White Star liner Olympic rolled like the tub of a washing machine. Said I, on being greeted by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and my son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, in Paris: 'It was a severe crossing, one of the worst I ever experienced.' I am in Europe, not for politics, but to visit my daughter who has recently been operated upon for appendicitis, in Rome...
Thomas W. Pelham, Vice President, Gillette Safety Razor Co.: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks, tore loose booms. The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho. Said I upon disembarking at Manhattan: 'The safety razor business is good all over Europe, and I am bringing back an order for 50,000 razors for the Kaffirs of Africa. The Kaffirs sell them to the tribesmen of the interior. Apparently they have grown weary of shells and glass as shaving tools...