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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Anna Hauptmann in her Bronx flat: "I hope and pray the true facts will come out before they can do anything to my poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death; Skirts; Baby | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...convulsively with streaming eyes during the ceremony. Sympathetic witnesses were that unhappy couple, sad Belgian Princess Marie-Jose and her gay Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Once dashing Umberto was the hope of antiFascists, was said to have challenged Il Duce to a duel, never gave the stiff-armed, flat-palmed Fascist salute, saluting Army style instead. In the present crisis. Italy's Crown Prince publicly salutes like a Fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Patience, With Progress | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

Under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight. The program includes Mozart's Symphony in E Flat Major, Dukas' "La Peri," and the Symphony No. 2 in D Major by Sibelius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sanders Concert | 10/17/1935 | See Source »

...until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines, and in a desperate attempt to rewin his audience leaned too far out the window of the set, bumped his head, fell flat on the floor. Next day his contract was canceled. Conscious of a vast relief, he sat down that same day, wrote the first act of Nona, his first success, in two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guitry's Growing-Up | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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