Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he went to the beach at n :30. There he stood for 15 minutes, knee-deep on the hissing shingle. After his circulation was thus methodically aroused, he plunged in, swam past the breakers, churned up & down parallel to the beach for 45 minutes, ably swimming side stroke, breast stroke, Australian crawl. Then he went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen to radio newscasts, until 5 o'clock. He swam for an hour again before returning...
...Love & Kisses." These record flights, and the whole birthday program, were a masterful stroke of publicity for the Corps. Ably assisting in the stroke was Lauren ("Deac") Lyman, oldtime New York Times air correspondent who now works for United Aircraft, good friend of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Newsmen still found lacking, however, publicity for one phase of Air Corps activity more dramatic than any other. Lest it seem too warlike, the Corps is not allowed by the War Department to publicize the extreme accuracy which its bombers have attained. They now can guarantee to smack their targets as precisely from...
Then overworked Joe Robinson died, and Franklin Roosevelt played straight into McNary's hands by his choice of bumbling "Dear Alben" Barkley over Pat Harrison for his new Leader. Next came the attempted Purge, another stroke of political amateurishness. McNary grew almost profane when restless men like Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...
...Pittsburgh last week the Westinghouse laboratories announced a new type of lightning recorder. Called a "fulchronograph," it gives a complete picture of a lightning stroke's intensity, from start to finish. Essential feature is a wheel with 400 iron fins on its rim, revolving at 3,400 r.p.m. A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils. In these coils the lightning sets up a varying magnetic field in which the fulchronograph wheel spins. Each iron fin of the fulchronograph is magnetized according to the intensity...
...playing with Dewitt Clinton Jones, Charles Wreaks and Randolph Harrison on the Suburban Club links in Elizabeth, N. J. I made a hole in one. It was my 23,990th hole in match play. Does anyone else know how many holes they had played before having this stroke of luck? That is what it is! Out of the millions of players very few expert amateurs or professionals have had it, proving that skill in the game has nothing to do with it. It also shows I have played 52 courses...