Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurling is Ireland's ancient version of Hockey. Hurling sticks (Hurleys) are shorter and thicker than hockey sticks, with flat bottomed blades as in ice hockey. There are 15 men on a team, seven backs, eight forwards. The field is 140 yards long with a crossbarred goal at each end. A shot over the bar counts 1 point or A of a goal. A goal is a shot beneath the bar. An official game consists of two periods of 30 minutes each. Of hurling says W. P. Clifford, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association...
...outstanding shortcoming of radio today in my opinion is that it presents a flat picture, without much perspective, and certainly with little or no depth. . . . In broadcasting we have neither sight nor memory to suggest where sounds originate, and it must be obvious that the blend of, say, woodwind and strings immediately in front of the microphone is very different from the combined tone if they are placed 20 ft. from each other and from the microphone...
...Calumet Butler ahead around the first two turns, with Calumet Belricka breaking the wind for Keno behind her. Keno came on just before the last turn and the two raced head & head down the straightaway. Calumet Butler was still a nose ahead as they slid, their heads low, backs flat and steady, under the wire. Grizzled and taciturn, like many a harness driver and many a farmer who saw the race, 62-year-old Richard McMahon, dressed in blue and crimson silk, was hailed to a microphone to voice an opinion on his victory. Said he: "It was my life...
Contrary to legend, bowstrings give out a hard, flat sound, not a twang; arrows hiss rather than whistle in their flight. The loudest sound on an archery range is the thump of arrows when they reach the thick straw target. Into the gold bull's-eye of the 48-in. target at Canandaigua last week the arrows loosed by a lanky toxophilite from Coldwater, Mich., thumped most consistently. He, Russell Hoogerhyde, won the men's championship for the second time in succession, maintained a record of winning every tournament he has entered. His score...
...Chicago's Black Belt, police evicted a colored woman from her flat. Instantly a crowd estimated at 3.000 gathered in the street. Evidently led by Communist agitators, shouting 'Tut that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration...