Word: topping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most 18-hole golf courses par (for men) ranges from 70 to 72.* A decade ago, when Supergolfers Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen dominated U. S. fairways, four par rounds were good enough to win almost any tournament. Last week, when this year's troupe of top-notch U. S. golf professionals concluded their winter trek around the "grapefruit circuit," the scores they whacked into the record books conclusively proved that par has lost its meaning...
...history: the Swing Mikado. After May 1, Chicago's Marolin Corp. will control the show, re-employ its all-Negro cast of 80. They will provide new sets since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because the Swing Mikado competed Against him, is now in a towering rage because he pleaded...
...last week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...
After Bill Tully and Bob Fulton had combined to make it 5 to 0, the Tigers rallied in their half of the eighth and managed to get a man around as far as third. In the ninth the top of the Crimson batting order landed on Farber with a vengeance and got four hits, with two of them being good for extra bases...
...conclusion, let us look at the plan as a whole. The goal of the House athletic scheme is a double one, quantity and quality. Improving one without the other defeats the very purpose of sport. The plan we launch attempts bettering both at once, quality from the top, with the invigoration which will come from the erstwhile Junior Varsity and minor sports man, and quantity all the way through, in the tremendous expansion of the House program which the plan affords...