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Word: straighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Leader Watson led the Senate brought down upon that body a volley of editorial abuse. It was accused of perversity and pique. The Press harped upon uncomplimentary comparisons: the late great Henry Cabot Lodge would never have permitted such legislative chaos; Charles Curtis had steered a far straighter course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Watson's Week | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...golf balls last week by the U. S. Golf Association. The difference may engender international complications next year because the Royal & Ancient Society of St. Andrews, high court of British golf, has refused to change the present standard ball. The new ball is said to make lies better, putting straighter, drives shorter by five or six yards. Because it has more surface and less weight it increases the errors of hookers, slicers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bigger & Lighter | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...took a pull of 80 pounds to spring; the casts of 18-year-old Harkins flew 400 feet (he was far behind the rest, though for his tools he did better than any). Gehrig "mitt" smiled. and He took a "pegged" it. "pill" in his Farther than the bait, straighter than the drive, as swift as the arrow, flew his ball. On the ninth hole, by a single shot, he beat Diegel, received first prize - a golden wrist watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unique Contest | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...avoid such "atrocities" in city-planning as its present metropoleis. "New York," declaired Robert W. DeForest, "is the world most horrible example. . . ." Boston, planned like a squatter's settlement, cannot recover good form for less than $50,000,000. Washington and Philadelphia, braced in infancy are straighter And the city of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architects | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter than he ever sailed before...

Author: By E. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/19/1924 | See Source »

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