Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., who once refused the offer of a $50,000 house from his fellow citizens of Atlanta, it was suggested that Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody might jeopardize her amateur status by accepting $20,000 bequeathed to her in the will of California's late Senator James Duval Phelan. Said he: "I wish someone would leave me the same amount. ... I think it is absolutely asinine for anyone even to question Helen's procedure...
...eliminate guesswork and tradition from golf instruction," the Professional Golfers' Association hired a movie camera geared to take 3,200 pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...
...week sowed with pop bottles. Another fatted calf met its death in Atlanta. Throughout the land, professional men shook their heads once more at the thought of the money?$50,000 at very least?which one of them might have made in the next twelve-month if only Robert Tyre Jones Jr., amateur, would not continue to be the world's most mechanical, most imperturbable, most brilliant golfer...
Plantation raised, immutably a Georgian, like all Atlantans he is proud of the prowess of Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., prouder still that he once persuaded Golfer Jones to continue studying Latin at Technical High School. The legend: Golfer Jones, 14, refused to recite his Latin lessons, was invited to "talk it over" with Teacher Sutton. After discussing golf for 15 min., said Golfer Jones: "My father tells me that if I go to school I've got to take the full course, including Latin...
...Mutton 1 of Tyre, fled from her brother's tyranny and founded Carthage ("New City"). Hence she was called Dido ("The Fugitive"). She entertained Aeneas, runaway from Greek-destroyed Troy, before he went to Italy where his descendants founded the Roman Empire...