Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make for the Department of Justice sketches of the criminal's face: sharp nose, flat cheeks, small mouth, pointed chin...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...
Coach Mikkola confined the day's session to the flat course, but promised something more energetic in the future in case any one didn't feel satisfied with the amount of work involved. The prospects for the harriers are very bright this year, with a squad of veterans returning to service...
...life-to write . . . poetry with its feet on the ground. . . . I have tried to show things as they are, but to show more also: the underground part of life that is unseen, and the richness which, though visible, is not noticed." Plain readers may find the ground a little flat, the poetry a little uncertain of its feet, but they will give Author Johnson high marks for an ambitious effort. More cynical critics will rate Now in November as big talk, too precocious to be profound...
...than seven and nine percent, and if the huge cash store of R. H. Macy & Company in New York cannot promise better than a six percent advantage over other department stores, is is not very likely that any one merchandising group like that in Harvard Square can offer a flat 10% discount on sales, particularly as these stores have to pay a return to the owner, a condition which the Harvard Cooperative Society does not have...