Word: tyro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to the Glatt farm, the Lincoln Standard Aircraft Corp. opened a school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...
...wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style. It chokes with adjectives. It halts and confuses and baffles even me, who wrote it. And it reminds me very much-including its possibilities-of the advertisements of TIME that have lately been appearing in TIME'S own pages (inside of back...
...GREECE). Now he stands forth as the "popular" bulwark to which M. Painleve looks for a large measure of the "psychic support" which he must have if he is to weather the heavy going ahead. It is one of the ironies of French politics that M. Painleve, a then tyro deputy, once delivered an address (one hour long) in the Chamber against M. Briand, entitled The Triumph of Immorality...
...Philmont Country Club, Philadelphia, to play against a nattier fellow?one arrayed in checkerboard golf-pantings, ring-streaked stockings like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts on the green, and a caddy wrote 6 on his scorecard. Watch Fob was one up. On Hole 2, Watch...
Although some will protest against the confinement of so vast a subject within the boundaries of a course, there will be counterbalancing advantages in aiding the tyro to cover this over fresh field in one survey. Such a course can decide nothing, it can reach no conclusions; but for those who persevere into its intricacies, it will provide, from the background of historic thought, a foundation for discussion and reflection...