Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME readers are writing to me, alternately criticizing and applauding my reasoning (TIME, Aug. 7) that a hole-in-one is not an accident, requesting amplification:
No hole-in-one is luck, since the golfer is playing for the hole. To get the ball in the cup is his aim and objective, ergo, how can you call it an accident?
It is an "accident" only when the ball does not go in the hole, the accident being due obviously and logically, to his faulty playing. . . .
Dr. Ragnell said he thought he could. Knowing that her boy would never knowingly accept such a sacrifice, the mother arranged to have him told that his new ears were taken from the victim of an automobile accident. She knew she could conceal the stumps of her ears by covering...
The great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the...