Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize.
That is almost the whole story of the British Open championship which Hagen won for the fourth time (second in succession) last week in Muirfield, Scotland. Diegel had a chance, but Diegel, as he usually does, blew up. Hagen, cautious as a cat, steady as a locomotive, did not blow...
Hagen's winning score was 292, the same as last year. At the halfway mark (36 holes) Diegel led him by two strokes, 140 to 142, despite a record-smashing round of 67 by Hagen. Diegel had cracked out a 69 himself that afternoon. Next morning he cracked up...
One-for-Five. No uncommon occurrence is a stock split-up on a five-for-one basis, involving exchange of five new shares for one old share, but a stock split-up involving one new share for five old is not so unusual or so pleasant. Such, however, was the...
Three-for-One. The more usual variety of stock split-up was reported by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., of Canada, shareholders approving a three-for-one split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in...