Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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humbling game, said the players of Greenwich, Conn., when Jess Sweetser, onetime (1922) National Amateur Champion, qualified for the annual invitation tournament at the Greenwich Country Club, the lowest by so wide a cut that he seemed a certain winner. All that stood in his way was a blond stripling named Lawrence Lloyd, a Greenwich youth who had a putter. On every green, that putter flashed. Down went straight 15 footers, down went curly 10 footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd...
...have given names and cited instances. If this condition continues, it may be necessary to authorize a nation-wide shutdown of all bituminous mines in the United States while the Government, the coal operators and the representatives of the mine workers discuss whether the Jacksonville agreement is going to be carried...
Oxford "bags" - trousers wide enough to hide effectively knocked knees, bowed legs and other nether malformations, and of colors gorgeous enough to shame a rainbow-were banned by the Provost of Eton, who stipulated that 20 inches round the ankle must be the maximum width...
...Avenue Church), as well as Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
Thousand Guineas. Down the spacious, windy fairways of Gleneagles, Scotland, perhaps the grandest golf course in the world, professionals from far and wide beat their balls as they qualified to play for the annual bag of a thousand guineas ($5,000). Vivacious Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, led them all with a record 69, until swart Abe Mitchell passed him with a pair of 70's for the two rounds. Joe Kirkwood, sole U. S. entrant, was lucky to qualify with 153, the first 80 strokes of which were somewhat impeded by a family of ducks that paraded...