Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight to the other end of the flat stick. The round stick, held vertically, will then support the flat stick and its weight horizontally...
...week Grocer Saunders had Keedoozle publicity well in hand, even if his store was still abuilding and may not open until next January. Keedoozle stores will be run by electricity. All articles for sale will be displayed behind glass. To purchase, the customer will insert a key in a hole in the showcase beside the sample article, press a button. In the stockroom the proper article will drop on a conveyor belt leading to the cashier's desk. Simultaneously the purchase price is recorded on an adding machine. After all purchases are made, the customer sticks his key into...
...golf-shop. Next morning, ready to leave the tee at 8:15 o'clock, he found the shop still closed. Unperturbed, Golfer Padgham broke in through a window, emerged with his clubs, shot two 71's. watched Scot Jim Adams fail by an inch to hole the putt that would have tied the championship...
...Hefley suddenly smelled a gasoline leak, cut the motor. Without warning a backfire enveloped the engine in flames. Pilot Hefley put the ship into a sharp dive. At 275 m.p.h. it hurtled downward, pancaked on the nearest field, slithered to a stop. Out from their blazing little hole Jesse Jones and three fellow-passengers yanked the pilots, arms and faces seared and sooty. Few minutes later the plane was smoking ashes...
...final's first twelve holes, Ferrier, putting brilliantly, was three up. Stubborn Thomson, son of a professional golfer, won the 14th, 15th and 16th and the afternoon round started with the match all even. Thomson finished the first nine two up. Ferrier cut it down to one up at the "Road Hole," the 17th, with a 4 to Thomson's 5. On the 18th green, Thomson's second shot stopped rolling six inches from the pin. Ferrier's stopped 30 feet away. Ferrier nodded, conceded the kind of match that makes old Scotsmen smoke their...