Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course I do not know just how the ancient Greeks played their game--whether there were more players on each team, whether there were goals, etc.--but it does seem reasonable that this bas-relief...
...insisted on bringing tea. He said he always used it at the poles. So we had tea, high tea, then and there. Of course the snow hindered us, but what is one hindrance more or less. Refreshed we made the last nine inches in ten flat. And what do you suppose we found? Well, some one had evidently climbed the dear old mountain before. For there was a bright, shiny Statler Hovel, newspapers at every door...
...issue of Dec. 13, simply must be corrected. Referring to lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior...
...Vulgar insults and apologies of crime must be repressed not only when they explode criminally in the streets or public squares but also in journalistic haunts during the preparatory phase of crime. Moreover, these calumnies have the flat crooked form of the boomerang, and, like that Australian weapon, finish sooner or later by returning of their own force to the feet of those who hurled them...
...week before Christmas and all through Detroit a great many creatures were stirring. That familiar figure, the man in the street, would have said that Detroit was "dead," "flat" or at least very quiet. But that would be because the Ford factories were shut down and production was at a low ebb in many another plant. Actually there was intense invisible activity-as in a huge household of which the important members had all shut themselves in their rooms to wrap up Christmas presents, cautiously guarding their keyholes against prying children (newspaper reporters) and fretting in secret over finishing touches...