Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London received a report that eight British missionaries, including five women and Bishop H W K. Mowll, former dean of Wycliffe College, Toronto, had been taken by bandits in Szechwan and were being well treated...
...Harding Trophy was won by a New York team with a total of 616 for 144 holes; four golfers from Cleveland, with 5 strokes more, were second; Pittsburgh, 629, third; then Washington, Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, Newark, Dayton, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Boston, Toledo...
Canadian Open. Clinking their shooting irons, winking covertly at one another, a band of U. S. marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first nine-hole skirmish of the Dominion open championship, defending Champion Leo Diegel (of Great Neck, L. I.) so ventilated his scorecard that it totaled but 32 shots. A 37 in and he tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched...
Canadian Professional. Dominion professionals played their trade championship as the usual curtain-raiser to the Canadian Open. Leading U. S. professionals seldom mix in this affair. Last week it was won by Percy Barrett (Lake Shore Club, Toronto), 145 (36 holes) ; Dave Spittal (Savannah, Ga.), 147; Nicol Thompson (Hamilton, Ont.) and Fred Miles (Mississagua), 148 each...
...next in order. Russia averages 4 conversations per capita annually.) ¶ The city with the most telephones per capita is San Francisco with 28.8 per 100 population. Other cities in order are: Omaha (28.3 per 100), Minneapolis (24.8), Stockholm (24.6), Washington (24.1), Chicago (23.8), Denver (22.7), Los Angeles (22), Toronto (21). ¶ Cities with less than five telephones per 100 population include : Amsterdam, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Antwerp, Glasgow, Liverpool, Prague, Manchester, Marseilles, Birmingham, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Naples. ¶ The world's prize nonuser of telephones is Ecuador. She has only 392 and only 125 miles of telephone wire...