Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains; a U. S. division crossing No Man's Land through machinegun fire; the captain of a German submarine ordering his crew to discharge a torpedo; Lenin waving his hands...
...Lying flat on their backs in freezing weather, attendants at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory have been watching eagerly every night since Tuesday for concentrated showers of Leonid meteors...
...Best-dressed" seniors at America's leading colleges are definitely against the clumsy old-fashioned fly. Though they prefer the smooth flat slide-fastened fly, they are also opposed to the uncovered zipper which displays a strip of bare metal. Kover-Zip, the invisible seamline closure demanded by good taste, has won approval in college from coast to coast. Here are a few typical comments on Kover-Zip by college they selected as "best-dressed...
...President Roosevelt wrote a letter to Housing Administrator Moffett with strict injunctions that the rate of interest on mortgages issued under the Housing Act was to be 5% flat plus ½% or 1% for insurance, plus, in some cases, ½% for service charges. Basic rate for refinancing cases is to be 5½%. He declared that rates of 8% to 12% demanded on mortgages in the past were "exorbitant." ¶ Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, dropped in at the White House. As he emerged he intimated that the American Legion, which fortnight ago demanded immediate cash prepayment...
Miss Frances Horowitz, a blondined and thirtyish telegraph operator, paced & paced & paced her top floor flat at No. 914 51st St., Brooklyn. "I'm sick! I'm sick! I'm sick!" moaned Frances Horowitz. "I have nothing to say. Nothing to say, except that I'm sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry. I made a great mistake! A great mistake...