Search Details

Word: aflat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Despite having passed the monolith countlesstimes, we never noticed the Necco factory until aflat bike tire brought us to the repair shopacross the street. The building dates back to 1927and radiates an aura of factory functionalityyou'd expect in a 1950's New England manufacturingtown that was once the ideal of American industry...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...mind to hear me in full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without missing a beat, he stepped into the bus, blasted out the Aflat, then hopped back onto the sidewalk as the startled driver and passengers rolled away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...what you change when you have aflat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glossary from Cot-tuh Country | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...handle 40 students-including Pace's own four children, aged six to twelve-who get no chance to dawdle. At one recital, a seven-year-old girl rippled off a lullaby in the key of F, played it again, at Pace's request, in E and in Aflat. When one of his students was asked to play The Star-Spangled Banner at elementary school, she flustered her teacher by asking "In what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Group Plink | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

| 1 |