Word: spooning
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...brassie off most tees because with a driver he often hits the ball into hazards meant for second shots. Wispy little Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., where his father's farm was opposite the country club, hits short drives but he carries five spoons in his bag and uses them more expertly than any other golf professional in the world. Wood's prodigious driving, Runyan's spoon shots and his brilliant putting, brought them to the 36th green all even. Both sank 12-ft. putts. They halved the 37th with birdie...
...handle of a silver-plated spoon vanished in a shower of sparks...
...college student, however, is expected to have a sufficient amount of brains and intellectual interest to master a subject without resort to armchair talks" or popular lecturing. If the Freshman is not treated from the first as a mature individual, capable of accepting responsibility and is nurtured upon spoon-fod knowledge, he will soon find college work too much for him when he encounters a professor who has no consideration for his "immaturity...
...outlining of his plan the Harvard President mentioned those who were able to enter a University through "accidents of birth." Members of the silver spoon class upon graduation enter into American business and public life and in most cases have little need for much of the formal training they now receive. Higher education has not yet been directed at them, but they pay the bills and help support the college...
...cream, and potatoes were easy, but the meat courses always afforded serious difficulties. By extreme perseverance, however, even they were finally mastered. And yesterday the acme of perfection was reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them...