Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miller, competing for the New England Championship in the 40 yard dash, won the crown from J. J. Sullivan of Boston College by inches in five seconds flat. He later won third in the K. of C. dash. In the Mayor Curley mile, the feature event of the meet, Tibbetts ran a strong race in 4.30 although Larrivee and Hahn led him to the tape. Larrivee's time of 4.25 3-5 set a record for the Mechanics Building track. Jones with a handicap of four inches took second in the K. of C. high jump...
...Represents the flat reduction of 25% made in last year's tax payments...
Throughout the whole rasps the strains of a jazz orchestra. Much of the dialog is written in the jumpy idiom of jazz. The several scenes are mostly bizarre paintings on flat drops. Exits and entrances are made from the orchestra pit. Even the stage-door alley beside the auditorium is employed for off-stage movements of the noisy...
...Manhattan race was a 2,000-metre handicap over a flat (unbanked) track. Off sped Nurmi, round and round, after runners who had started many yards ahead of him. Twice, on the sharp turns of the track, he slipped, lost his stride, yet when he broke the tape, he broke also the world's indoor* record for this distance, his time 5 min. 33 sec. After him panted Gunnar Nilson, who had started with a 125-yard handicap...
Died. Henri Geeraert, 61, sluice-keeper who stopped the German advance on Calais in. 1914; in Bruges, Belgium, after a long illness. Geeraert kept the sluices of Nieuport. He knew that German armies were plunging across Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been...