Americans seldom play on clay at home, and the green clay they're apt to encounter when they do is only a distant relation to the European terre battue, possessing a completely different feel . ( River Oaks'" red " clay is actually crushed white Hill Country limestone that's colored red, and it plays more fast than slow .)
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The "'1912 World Hard Court Championships "'( WHCC ) ( French : " Championnats du Monde de Tennis sur Terre Battue " ) was the inaugural edition of the World Hard Court Championships tennis tournament, considered as the precursor to the French Open, and was held on the clay courts of the Stade Fran�ais at the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris from 1 June through 9 June 1912.
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In his short work the author uses picturesque metaphors, for example comparing the propeller wash flowing backwards like a river in his description of the movements of the grass behind an airplane : " " Battue par le vent de l'h�lice, l'herbe jusqu'?vingt m�tres en arri�re semble couler " ", as well as his descriptions of the physical sensation of the air becoming solid : " " Il regarde le capot noir appuy?sur le ciel " ".
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SIR,-I see that Lord Llangattock, who presided at the annual meeting of the Antivivisection Society on 9 May, gave credence to'the horrible stories of what takes place in the laboratories of physiology,'denounced vivisection as'misleading, immoral, and degrading,'and professed'a sentiment for animals .'Now, I recollect reading in the newspapers last autumn a description of a battue on a large scale, given by Lord Llangattock at his place in Wales, at which a phenomenal number of pheasants were shot for the recreation of Lord Llangattock and his friends, and I should like him to study this little picture of his own dealings with animals, for which he has'a sentiment'drawn not by a vivisector, but by a man who is a keen and trustworthy observer, and who is in genuine sympathy with all senitient beings.
