Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both schools were offered a flat guarantee of $35,000 cash to meet in the Cotton Bowl New Year's Day. The offer was the largest over made a football team for a single game...
Most notable absentee from the first team was Army's Harry Stella, and small wonder, for he was mousetrapped to death when the Cadets came here, flat on his All-America face. Bob Brooks of Yale was the top tackle the Crimson met all year, and George Sommers of Dartmouth was right on his heels...
...with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability and rate of climb. But Willy Messerschmitt remains an ace name in Naziland. It would be news indeed if he fled his country, as gossip in Europe last week said he had, placing him in The Netherlands...
...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
Pillar halos are caused by the reflection of strong lights from the faces of thin, flat snow crystals which tend to pancake while falling-that is, to keep their reflecting surfaces horizontal so that light rising from below is reflected practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength...