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Perhaps the shower that fell that afternoon gave Bobby a crick in the neck. Many thought so, though he refused to admit it. Or perhaps it was just one of those inexplicable lapses that the best of players cannot escape. At all events, it was a different Jones that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating...
...Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
Gumshoe, stick, crack, crick...