Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business a head of steam proportionate to the pressures carried by his latest products...
...other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first tee 14 strokes behind the leader, put down his head and played golf through the screaming storm. Displaying the most courageous game of his career, he shot a 74, and with an aggregate of 312, won by one stroke the first Irish Open Golf Championship...
...champion, became the favorite. But Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., suppressed Mrs. Reinhardt in the semifinal. In the other half, Mrs, Pressler squeezed out an early match with an eagle to beat a birdie and win, one up. Soon she trounced Virginia Van Wie, ranking player; broke par by a stroke to trounce Mrs. David C. Gaut in the semifinal...
...Ederle's brass-band-accompanied swim across the English Channel, one Edward Harry Temme, 22-year-old London insurance "clark" (clerk), inserted his strong body (length, 6 ft. 2 in.; weight, 205 Ibs.) into the bitterly cold waves off Cape Gris-Nez, France, and commenced a steady trudgeon stroke toward England...
...Manhattan, Miss Thompson's employers grinned. She had made a great stroke. They splashed impressively on their front page about the celebrated novelist who was turning "reporter for a day" for the Post. They primed the Post's readers for some stories of strife such as had not been written since Richard Harding Davis went to Cuba...