Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steady Ben Hogan, who weighs a mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...Breckinridge reads with difficulty and wears dark glasses to guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
Many a professional specialist had begun to wonder whether the Dow theory, a useful barometer in less stormy times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being worked out and "proved." For example, only a month after the theory signaled a bull market in May, the Berlin blockade sent prices skittering down again, although business got better & better...
...appeared in the Nov. 9th edition of the New Bedford Standard-Times. It would seem to me that the H. A. A. would take care of the requests of the students and graduates before they began to give out so highly prized tickets as contest prizes. It is no wonder that students and grads are lucky to get half-way decent seats for the Yale game. E. W. Talmage '50 E. P. Robbins...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...