Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Longwood Cricket Club was also holding a women's invitation tournament and the galleries got their first glimpse of 16-year-old Helen Jacobs of California, heralded as a Wills-like prodigy. She reached the finals, stopping several good second-raters, but lost flat-footed to Miss Eleanor Goss. Experts said: "A fine showing for one so young and not accustomed to turf...
Wembley Stadium and some 60,000 Britons basked beneath a cloudless August sky. Out in the centre of 26 the arena, on a platform hedged with ropes, a creature with a "splendidly white skin and a figure that would suggest a Greek god to a woman novelist," lay flat upon the canvas and basked with them...
...city of Chicago is flat. Around it the country is flat as it stretches away in all directions?except to the East, where there is fresh water. On this surrounding prairie, there lies a town called Clearing. Here on a piece of open ground, workmen have been busy laying a great amount of twelve-inch water-mains. They are the most curious water-mains that have ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost...
...boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous and flat. The best publishing ethics has not yet forbidden this type of matter. Occasionally it turns up in the most respected journals. The New York Times is an example. Current History, a monthly journal of events, belongs to the Times group. Recently an article, almost a column and a half long, appeared...
...want wigs" was one keynote struck at this Convention. Another was: "Feminism is now an asset to women attorneys. It is the girl with the real womanly qualities who now appeals to judges and juries. . . . The flat-heeled, sailor-hatted, high-collared woman lawyer is out of date...