Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-boiled jockeys, with whom he likes to have breakfast at dawn, condescend to call him a "regular guy." To seasoned sportswriters, he is a nice kid with a flair for sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans...
...believed that the University statistical analysis eliminates one of the principal grounds of dispute over Dr. Abbot's findings, based on years of regular observations of solar radiation at stations scattered in different parts of the world...
...backboards on the Athletic Building floor was the convex type, much smaller than the regular board and slightly curved to allow a better view of the basket by a player shooting from the corner of the floor, while the other was the regulation size and shape...
...trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes on to say that it is these things that are making him leave the business. He says that he starved for two years with his original band idea of regular instrumentation plus string quartet--that he finally had to make some concession to public taste and acquire a more conventional setup, and that after that, he went ahead by means of his own boot straps...
...with these abstractions, but even a casual listener, if he is at all acquainted with Strawinsky's music, must notice in contemporary compositions the re-echoing not only of his spirit, but also of his treatment of the actual details of writing music. For example, the exciting sound of regular, freakily marked rhythmical beats varied by complex shifts of pulse and accent is a commonly heard effect which everyone associates immediately with the "Strawinsky influence...