Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...structure will be three stories high, and the sides will be relieved each by two round bays or towers, extending to the roof, these being the only projections of consequence on either sides or ends. The windows will be surmounted by flat arches, the screw-backs being of stone, and will be arranged with moulded brick mullions between, in groups of five to the lecture-rooms and four to the other rooms. The entrances to the building will be from the west, which is the front, and east sides, and will be furnished with a carved brick ornamentation overhead...
...general appearance of the crew has much improved in the past week: the stroke is longer, but needs to be well rowed out; the feather is flat, and, in several cases, too early. A little better time and a little more life would make a marked difference...
...programme at the second recital was as follows: Sonate in C minor, Mozart; Sonates, op. 10, No. 3, and op. 110, by Beethoven; Andante Spiniato, Nocturne in A sharp, and Waltz in A flat, by Chopin. It was strongly a representative programme, for Mozart's C Minor Sonate is one of his greatest, and the op. 110 belongs to the last period of Beethoven's creative activity, - the period of the Ninth Symphony and the Mass in D. The Chopin numbers were more pleasing to the popular taste...
Considering the length of time which it has taken to prepare these rules, we had a right to expect a perfect set; yet several small points indicate a lack of care in adapting them to our uses. Thus in fencing a 34-inch flat-bladed foil is required, though it is stated on good authority that there is hardly a foil of that description in the State. Rule 4 for vaulting refers to vaulting from a mat, a custom which is never practised here...
They 're just a trifle flat...