Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked if he had discussed the order with President Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes returned a flat "No." Last week newshawks put the question to the President. Did he have any information about the Ickes-Moses row? Lots, said the President...
...Standard models have a new engine with 23 per cent more horse-power, and an improved chassis frame. The bodies have been made more spacious, and all closed models have flat floors in the rear compartment, eliminating the ridge which formerly existed. Redesigned dials, behind concave glass that eliminates reflection and promotes visibility, are mounted in an improved instrument board with walnut-grained panels. The new engine is of the same displacement as the 1934 Master models, but incorporates new improvements. The brakes have been made more powerful to match the gain in engine power...
...always a firm believer that the Gates of Hell could never prevail against sound money, Clément Moret entered the eclipse of Honorary Governor after setting Paris the kind of example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent to reorganize the impoverished exchequer of reconquered Alsace-Lorraine...
Adrian Cedric Boult, musical director of the British Broadcasting Company, will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 8 o'clock tonight in its Thursday concert at the Sanders Theatre. The program will be comprised of "Sonata Plan e Forte for Brass Instruments," by Gabrieli, "Divertimento in B flat," by Mozart, and "Symphony NO. 2 in E Flat, Opus 63," by Elgar...
...winter water near the tip of Long Island. Fifty-four feet long, she was accompanied by her 38-ft. infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American...