Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined] club increases the free flight distance of the golf ball by 15 yards, which means a golfer like Jimmy Thomson using the streamlined club should attain a carry of 275 yards...
...still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached...
...uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor farmers, became a Populist candidate for President, and wound up as a rabble-rouser, an anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, defender of lynching, with a reputation as the "basest, most depraved, most poisonous...
Bill Shallow figured prominently in the scoring by throwing the 35 pound weight 51 ft. 10 3/4 in. for second place. Bob Haydock tied with James Thomson of M. I. T. in the high jump at 6 ft. 1 in. for fifth place. The mile relay team (Donnelly, MacDonald, Richards, Lightbody) placed third under Pittsburgh and Manhattan. Mason Fornald was shut out in the semi-finals of the hurdles...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...