Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teams Play on Flat Basis...
Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...
...Thus did Dr. Voliva last week explain his trip: "I have been traveling in a circle around the North Pole, traveling on a flat plane. Naturally I came back to my starting point." On this thesis the doctor has argued much, offered a $5,000 prize to that wise man who can convince him of the earth's rotundity. Many wise men have tried, but wiser Dr. Voliva refuses to be shown. He argues that if the world were round, trains and boats could not make the uphill grade of its curvature; that people at the bottom would tumble...
...motor should "conk," the autogiro would behave exactly as if the pilot had deliberately shut off the power for a landing : it would settle earth ward at 14 ft. per sec. (slower than the drop of a man with a parachute), while the pilot maneuvered toward a flat space - say 50 ft. square (a front lawn, perhaps) for a perfect landing. And what is all-important, those operations are much simpler than piloting an airplane. Even the novice could do little damage unless he flew the autogiro directly into collision, or landed it on a church steeple, powerline, or crowded...
...bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week he dropped his feud with Col. Goldschmidt long enough to blast the Hardiman horse as a "fiddle-headed, peacocky, weak-necked, flat-sided, long-backed, straight-shouldered, herring-gutted useless beast...