Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Tommy Armour, one-eyed, Scottish-born professional of Detroit: by one hole, the Professional Golfers' Association championship, at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I., sinking a 12-ft. putt on the 36th hole against Gene Sarazen. ¶ Jimmy McLarnin, 140-lb. Pacific Coast Irishman: a fight at the Yankee Stadium, New York, from Al Singer, who won the world's lightweight championship two months ago (TIME, July 28) from battered Sammy Mandell; by a knockout; after 2 min. 21 sec. of the third round. McLarnin won no title because of the differences in weight...
Fifteen miles from Atlanta rises the bleak face of Stone Mountain. Weather-beaten tool houses and engineers' shacks balance precariously on its summit; ladders, derricks, remnants of scaffolding cling to its flank. Two sculptors have blasted and worried a hole in its face into a semblance of General Robert E. Lee on his horse, Traveller. They have left a pile of granite debris at its base which Quarryman San Venable of Atlanta, former owner of Stone Mountain, declares will take five years to remove. To Stone Mountain there returned last week Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains...
Borglum's successor at Stone Mountain was Augustus Lukeman who promptly blasted away all the original Borglum sculpture, carved in the resulting hole another statue of General Lee and Horse Traveller before funds ran out. Then Lukeman, too, washed his hands of Stone Mountain, went north. Three months ago one Will Tuggle, Atlanta Justice of the Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which...
...director of the hatcheries distinguished her among wall-eye pike by punching a hole in her tail fin in acknowledgment of her reproductive ability...
...where he had been for 27 years. In 1891 Perry, a trainman of the New York Central, longed for luxurious living. One night he sawed his way into his train's money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard...