Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Shanghai, China, a distinguished mingling of white and yellow folk took place at the opening of the greyhound racetrack at Luna Park. Lean Wazir, owned by A. W. Olsen and Y. F. Hung, won the Yangtszepoo Stakes. Col. R. W. Dockrill's Staff Captain took the Luna Park Opening Cup. Misses Margot and Tita Stephen's Merry Sinner took the Luna Park Hurdle Cup. But the dogs of Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon won no races until the second day's Hongkew Hurdles...
...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...
...sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar...
...Jones were left with 36 more holes to play to settle the tie. Both showed the strain of the three days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead in the second round...
...possible, therefore, to divide the more influential of the guests of Financier Jones into two classes: 1) lean, hungry Senators and Representatives from the South and West, leaders in Democratic and near-Democratic states, and 2) jovial, well-fed city bosses from the North and East. The issue between the two groups was sharply drawn, the South v. the Cities, Dry v. Wet, Protestant v. Catholic, the Field v. Candidate Smith. Almost for the first time in party history, the bosses were united on a candidate and promised to stampede the convention...