Word: blurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Otherwise the meet will be just one dark red blur. Dartmouth is slated to get around 20 points while the Harvard mark will be nearer 100. It is within the misty realm of possibility that Harvard will cop a first place in every event except the shot and 400 meters...
...Shapley described as that of "a celestial Harun al-Raschid parading through the heavens in the raiment of a beggar" was related by him last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index...
...Last week its readers discovered which reputation the Times prizes more highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
...time-clock on the Stadium scoreboard was doing some funny things in the last period of Saturday's game. For a while the hand seemed to be stuck, and when we later glanced that way it had moved backwards. Finally we saw an arm rise above the blur of humanity underneath the scoreboard and set back the clock's hand several minutes...
...crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...