Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
...tell is to study the folds in the skin of the thighs. If one thigh is creased more on the inner side than the other, the creased side is dislocated. If both thighs are deeply creased, both hips are probably dislocated. Another method is to put the baby flat on its back and bend its legs at the hips and knees so that its feet are flat on the table or bed. If one hip has been out any length of time, the knee on that side will be lower than the knee of the unaffected side. A careful...
Soon, on campuses all over the East, students began to hear from one or two respected classmates glowing descriptions of Philip Morris cigarets. Football players found their prowess rewarded with "flat fifties." Any man who was elected to a class office or chosen as a Rhodes Scholar was presented with "flat fifties." College sports editors were asked to run score-predicting contests with Philip Mor- ris cigarets as the prize...
...port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
Date. Charles Gates Dawes is on record with a flat-footed prediction that Depression will end next May or June. The General would have been on safer ground if, instead of predicting the time, he had-as a pressagent said he would- named the precise date. That date would undoubtedly have been the day that U. S. Steel restores its full preferred dividend...