Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Landowska plays the harpsichord, instrument of an older time and more fastidious taste. She played the Handel Concerto in B Flat for harpsichord and orchestra and then the Bach Concerto for harpischord unsupported, and finally the Mozart Concerto in E Flat for piano and orchestra. Four recalls gave convincing evidence of her triumph...
...basis of this confidence lies in the fact that in Captain Coburn, Cutcheon, Watters, and Chapin the University has four men of exceptional scoring ability, who are at their best on a flat course and the journey through Van Cortlandt Park, although covering one hill twice, is essentially of the flat variety. The course at New Haven, where Yale nosed out the University a week ago Saturday by six points is considered probably the hilliest in this part of the country, even more so than that at Hanover...
Although successful practice over an exacting course would apparently mean a corresponding advantage over an easier route, such has been demonstrated not to be the case. Training over a hilly course gives primarily endurance, but not speed, while conversely work over flat country brings more speed than endurance. The University squad has spent most of its time this fall on the comparatively flat course along the Charles River, which should have primed it in the best way for Van Cortandlt Park...
...light comedy effects of the play are heightened by the warm color scheme in the opening scene. The settings are designed in straight lines, with broad, flat surfaces, painted in clear, bright colors...
...been made. The American Medical Association consistently refuses to do so. It will conduct a serious investigation, its says, "when the American Astronomical Society appoints a committee to determine the truth or falsity of the theory of Voliva (head of the Zion City Dowieite colony) that the earth is flat." Abrams has constantly refused to submit his method to tests controlled by the ordinary canons of science. His "reactions" often disagree with conventional diagnoses, and are claimed to be more delicate and sensitive than any orthodox method. Blood samples from animals and from perfectly healthy humans have been submitted...