Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced old Macdonald Smith, who tied with his brother for the Open in 1910 and has narrowly missed winning it more often than any other golfer in the world, had needed to gain five strokes to tie. He gained only one. Handsome Victor Ghezzi, needing a final...
CLANSMEN - Ethel Boileau - Dutton ($2.50). Pretentious history of a landed Scottish family, treating exhaustively the amorous career of a solid young scion, who is likely to interest the reader much less than he does the author...
...action that clinched the nomination for Landon, this politician felt, was the announcement earlier in the week that J. Henry Roraback's uninstructed Connecticut delegation would vote for the "Kansas Coolidge" on the first ballot. This was the first break in the solid ranks of the free Eastern delegations, and what "Stop Landon" movement there was collapsed, in the opinion of the annonymous Bay State Republican...
...small board of solid gold, with gold and silver pieces, is said to have been the property of the Czarina of Russia. Near it stands a larger set with silver and gold squares on a chased silver stand...
...unhappy hiatus in Berkey & Gay's life, the solid citizens of Grand Rapids blame the well-meaning but ill-timed effort of Zalmon G. Simmons, then head of Simmons Co. (beds), to break down the conservative tradition of Grand Rapids merchandising. This was a tradition of virtual subservience to dealers. Beginning with the first Berkey Grand Rapids furniture show in 1878, buyers from widely different localities had been allowed endless caprice. People in the U. S. had formed no assured taste in furniture, and Grand Rapids manufacturers made no attempt to form a taste for them. Berkey & Gay sold...