Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desks last week were Harry Snyder, wealthy Chicago oilman, and George G. Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, after a grueling specimen-hunting expedition which set a record for distance covered in northwest Canada-7,000 miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust...
...Pancake-flat fell Kirtley Mather's vision of becoming a cause célèbre. Said he: "I shall, of course, comply with...
...this seemingly generous offer, the opposition pastors returned a flat and unanimous "No." Behind the appearance of the State's abject surrender, they spotted the finesse that Minister Kerrl, although promising to appoint opposition clerics, reserved the right to dismiss them as soon as opposition congregations had drained off into his German Christian Church...
Informal and at times irrelevant, the play's dialog is of that bitter, witty sort that bubbles up behind the footlights, falls flat on paper. Sample...
Repeal of Prohibition at any time in the near future is a flat impossibility. The repugnant proposal to permit States to dispense liquor will never prove acceptable...