Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When anyone's hands blister playing golf it means that the player is just learning the game or that he has not played for a long time. Walter Hagen, after one day's practice in England where he had gone to play Archie Compston a match for $3,750, got a big water blister on the pad of flesh at the base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from...
...Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels...
...crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible to the naked eye 600 miles away. U. S. astronomers were advised not to suppose that the in creased luminosity of their horizon heralded...
...sent out despite the rough water, but were only able to paddle a half a mile and then were forced to return. Coach Brown's eight left the float minus the services of Watts, the stroke oar, who was kept out of the boat for today because of a blister on his hand. Canning, number four, took the place of Watts in setting the time, and Sexton, a member of last spring's second Freshman boat, who is now on Coach Newell's combination squad, was put in Canning's seat...
...miles and more that day, and had beaten by long margin a field of 62 other road-pounders. He was winning the cruelest of all races, wherein strong heart and mickle courage are the fundamental prerequisites -the Marathon. And trailing behind the winner Clarence De Mar jogged blister-footed Olympic champion Albin Stenroos, Finn, who led De Mar by two places in the 1924 competitions- on that terrifically hot day the racers wilted like flies along the roadside. And behind him thumped other runners who thought De Mar was a has-been. The typesetter from Melrose, Mass., began his marathonic...