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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient at Breakfast | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Wyoming was warm, wet and flat 125,000,000 years ago. It was a tropical land dotted by lakes and marshes, webbed by languid rivers. The water was alive with huge reptiles, sleeping, floating, wading, swimming, browsing lazily on the lush water plants and swamp grasses. They were sauropods- long-necked, long-tailed, bullet-headed dinosaurs, weighing 15 or 20 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...Flat on the altar steps of the grey stone church at squat, dun-colored, little Caughnawaga, Quebec one day last fortnight lay Michael Jacobs, 32. When he arose an ordained Jesuit priest, pledged to missionary work among Indians around Caughnawaga, many a spectator felt that an old, old debt had been partly paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Iroquois Atonement | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Pirates called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: At Cayo Hueso | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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