Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seen from exalted heights...
...Some of the conductors I have seen have got that excited with the music it looked as if they were having a fight with it. ... I think modern music is funny. It always sounds as if it did not take the composer long to make up. ... I liked the symbells very much as they gave off a very good tinkling sound. You could hear them in spite of all the noise. I had a good view of the Drummer...
...Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
Most ski addicts can trace their initial interest in the sport to the spellbinding ski jumps seen in the newsreels. But they soon learned that ski jumping could not be mastered in "ten easy lessons." Last week, when the national ski-jumping champion ships were held at St. Paul, only a few natives were good enough to enter the Class A competition...
What they witnessed was perhaps the most beautiful performance of ski jumping ever seen in the U. S. Slanting through the air, bending forward obliquely from his ankles, Reidar Andersen outjumped all his rivals (193 ft., 197 ft.), so impressed the judges that he was awarded 234.45 points, just 5.55 short of the highest score possible in a tournament...