Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...
When, in the last round of an important medal tournament which he has had a good chance to win, a young golfer gets to the tenth tee and learns that he is four strokes behind the leader, two things can happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...
...single stroke -a 220-yd. spoon shot that finished in the hole for a double-eagle 2 on the Augusta National's 485-yd. 15th hole. What Nelson did last week was not quite so spectacular but it was equally effective. He got a birdie 3 at the tenth hole, a par 4 at the nth, a birdie 2 at the 12th, an eagle 3 at the 13th. On the 12th, where his ball had failed by inches to carry a water hazard, Guldahl had taken 5. On the 13th, where his iron shot had gone into the water...
...thrown out of kilter by strong temblors originating nearby. Dr. Benioff has now devised what he calls an "earthquake resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week that it would not be put out of whack by a quake unless the walls of the observatory themselves tumbled...
Then smart entrepreneurs started building refineries in the tropics, shipping the finished product instead. The tariff on raw and refined was approximately the same, while labor and taxes were lower than in the U. S. By 1934 these tropical refiners were supplying nearly one-tenth of the 6,000,000-odd tons oi sugar annually consumed...