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He won the second hole when Mitchell bunkered an iron shot. He won the fourth hole when Mitchell hooked a drive. He won the fifth and sixth holes with faultless golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Silk Shirt | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Huge circles were marked off on the fairways where the course's architect had calculated that tee-shots should come to rest. They were concentric circles, the smallest, inner one yielding nine points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Target Golf | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

These dwarfs and gnomes were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gnomes and Dwarfs | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Near Visby, "city of roses and ruins" on Sweden's island, Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, Professor Nils Lithberg came upon the ruins of a city at least 1,500 years old, which gave promise of yielding relics far older, relics of the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Excavations in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diggers | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Thus the instructor's instinct bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VEILING OF WISDOM | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

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