Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland Hills last week, the Open Championship, No. 1 event of golf-72 holes of medal play for the best amateurs and professionals in the U. S. sifted through nation-wide sectional qualifying tests-started out as anticipated. Most publicized U. S. golfer since Bobby Jones, long-driving young Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., playing in his first Open, lived up to all advance notices with a 69 (three under par) for his first round. Made after a shaky start in which he was two over par on the first four holes, he shared the lead with...
...strokes he now made it look as though he would lose again when he pushed his drive into the rough on the tenth, took a bogey 5, and three-putted the next green. But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite. So calm that he appeared preoccupied, he got birdies on the next two holes, played the remaining five in par despite ricocheting off a spectator into a trap at the 15th, combed his hair for the cameramen while strolling across the packed home green to sink...
...moon is longer; and when the moon is closer to earth than usual, the earth intercepts a thicker section of the cone. The maximum possible width of an eclipse path is 167 miles. At its noon point the shadow path of this week's eclipse was 153 miles wide...
...Front-page story: "KUHN, LOEB FINANCE NEW STRIP TEASE MILL. Will Produce Cold and Hot Rolled Shapes and Both Wide and Narrow Strip Products...
...suburban Haverford, two miles from his archenemy, George Earle. He is a pillar in the National Association of Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done...