Word: blurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harold ("Red") Grange leaped up in the twilight, intercepted a forward pass, and started to weave through a blur of tacklers toward the Ohio State Goal line, while 85,000 spectators rose howling to their feet. All day the 85,000 had been pouring into Columbus by bus, by automobile, by train from New York and San Francisco, by airplane, by buggy. They had not come to see a football game. They had come to see Grange, the most advertised player. They knew, as they watched his galloping feet cross line after white line, that they were looking...
...take the yellows, once with a red screen to take the reds. These photographs were then transmitted separately. The only difference of method was that the lines of each picture were at a different angle across the plate, so that when they were reproduced they would blend instead of blur...
...SCANDALS?A new note of the bizarre marks George White's latest revue with the New York blue ribbon. He has disregarded the precise symmetry and eyes action which had become axioms of the musical show business. He has thrown an occasional blur of color in the wrong place, in both his scenery and his humor. He has varied his tempo. The effect is slightly erratic?and the public is fighting to see George White's show...
Gene Tunney, former champion of the A. E. F., emerged from the smoke of a battle in Madison Square Garden holding Harry Greb's light-heavyweight championship of the world. But the smoke had hardly cleared when clouds of official disapproval rose to blur the brilliance of his honors. Not only did the metropolitan papers cast bitter reflections on the verdict of Judges Charles E. Miles, Charles Meighan and Referee Patsy Haley, but William Muldoon himself, Chairman of the State Athletic Commission, declared the decision "unjustifiable". He stated, however, that the verdict was official and that the State Commission...