Word: windings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aggregation, 1932 seems to have an excellent chance to overthrow the jinx of the Blue yearling meet. While the Yale Freshmen bowed to Princeton, 73 to 62, last Saturday, the local first year men were trouncing Exeter and setting up some remarkable times, though somewhat aided by the favoring wind conditions of the Academy track
Although a full sized house has not yet been constructed, the inventor claims that it is flood-proof, earth-quake-proof, wind-proof, tornado-proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, and economical and that an airplane could run into it without damaging it. In addition, the partitions and struts are made of hollow duralumin which is pumped full of air to increase the tensile strength of the structure and to enable the children of the house to fall down without being hurt by the springy flooring...
...first time in many years, the U. S. Government has erected a building at a foreign exposition. Conventionally Spanish, solidly constructed, it will house the U. S. Consulate at Seville after the exposition is closed. Meanwhile visitors thronged inside to see the oil furnaces, electric refrigerators, airplane models, miniature wind tunnels and other mechanical gadgetry...
There was more wind than usual, even for Muirfield. The hats of spectators flapped off their heads. The golfers leaned against it when they were on the greens. Once it blew a Hagen putt, which had stopped short, the last needed inch. Several Diegel drives, starting too high, were shoved aloft, stopped, dropped as though they had hit an invisible cliff...
...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 and had to hit his ball 82 times before holing out at lunch time. Hagen, wind or no wind, dropped back to his steady 75 pace, and held it during the afternoon. Diegel needed a 70 to tie, another 69 to win. He took 77, and dropped behind U. S. Open Champion Johnny Farrell (294) to finish third with...