Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are several weaknesses in the present scoring method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
Under the new arrangement, the general doubt as to who is ahead in a close match is remedied by the simple expedient of chalking up the points just as they are won on a scoreboard as is done in a basketball game; and also much more stress is laid in the point scoring to aggressive tactics...
...that Herr Hitler's ultimate downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt him backhand blows...
...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...
...cannot deny that his operas are lush. His love affairs were more so. Richard found it even harder to edit his morals than his scores, and scarcely less numerous than his leitmotivs were his lady-friends. Most soothing of all, according to Miss Richardson, was Cosima, daughter of one close friend, Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt, wife of another, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow. But readers will find that what Cosima did to take the crinkles out of Richard's brow put them double-deep onto Franz's and Hans...