Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the slow track yesterday the sprinters and distance men chalked up some unusually good records in the fall handicap track meet. In the 220 Brooks at scratch finished a foot behind Bunker, who was given six yards and who made the distance in 23 seconds flat. With a five yard handicap Chapin took the 880 in 2m 01 4-5s, while Cutcheon, only a stride behind, covered the entire distance as scratch...
...Sonata, B flat major...
...peak and slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
...Belmont cross-country course has been thrown into the discard, temporarily at least, and for the next week the University and Freshman squads will work out over the flat Charles River course...
From a man of Commissioner Tigret's position, a flat statement of this sort is more than unfortunate, especially since the signing of the Big Three Agreement between three of the most prominent universities of the country. It is tantamount to implying that the agreement is purely for outside consumption, and that the officials of the signatory college, all men of established probity, are conniving at what would very nearly approach a conspiracy to deceive...