Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preliminary races were on the flat, at varying distances up to half a mile. Climax: a quarter-mile steeplechase over low hurdles, won by a nimble, auburn-haired young woman whom shameless Berlin sports writers did not scruple to call "a chestnut filly...
Enough to set hairs a-standing on pious Mohammedan heads would be a proposal to cover the broad, flat floors of mosques with hateful, heathen pews...
...they say Sir Launcelot, weary with the weight of his armor, once bathe ". Toward this pond, annoyed by the weight of his jockey, Largo, one of the horses entered in the Grand Prix, last week, cantered wildly. The crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix de Guerre, owned by Ogden Mills (father of the U. S. Under Secretary...
Slap, slap, slap, for 3,600 times without a miss the fretting fists of William Ogden Heath, 27, of Garden City, L. I., struck the punching bag over his head. He was flat on his back, but not for virtuosity in bag punching. His hips and knees were stiff and painful from arthritis. Abnormal deposits of bone made them practically immovable. Drugs, vaccines, sun baths, oven bakings, changes of climate had done him no good. The disease had grown worse, and this backside bag hitting was an intelligent young man's desperate effort to prevent his arm joints becoming...
Your "figures, figures" anent the worth of John D. Rockefeller's weight in gold fall flat before one who knows gold. Perhaps you retain some of the old prejudice against Standard Oil, and so rate him down to 16¼ carats or $14.00 per oz., which would bring his pounds to just about your figure of $204.09 each, but one is inclined to consider his vast benefactions and his late judgment of Col. Stewart, and give him the full 24 carat rating of 1000 fine...