Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory in one respect, for they found Chinese had wrecked and burned some $100,000,000 of Japanese property, mostly factories and warehouses, including 438 Japanese private homes in Tsingtao. This, however, will provide a good excuse for demanding an indemnity and the forehanded Japanese promptly valued their wrecked houses at some...
...Snead was favored to win-an unheard of predicament for a first-year man. And more unheard of was the fact that a first-year man lived up to his reputation in his first national championship tournament. Although Sam Snead did not win the tournament he came within a stroke of tying the U. S. open championship record with a phenomenal 283, missed the title only because Ralph Guldahl played one of the most heroic last rounds in the annals of golf-to break the record with...
Sophomore George Tolan has shown the most advanced from thus far in the backstroke, completing the 150-yard event in pool-record time against Lehigh last week. Another Sophomore, Lafe Weeks has bolstered the sagging breast stroke division and is a sure-fire point winner in league competition...
...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
...those days Steichen spelled his first name "Eduard." He was a painter as well as a photographer and his photographs tended to be Whistlerian. Rembrandtesque or merely misty. Stieglitz, who never painted a stroke, was meanwhile doing a number of clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When...