Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week most of them were gathered on a high ridge in Elmira, N. Y., for the fifth annual gliding contest of the Soaring Society of America. For two days unfavorable winds kept the impatient birdmen on the ground, but on the third day conditions were ideal. Over the flat top of Henry Harris Ridge, newly cleared at a cost of $10,000, floated fleecy cumulus clouds with their promise of thermal currents. Beyond the Chemung Valley 900 ft. below beckoned the blue hills of Pennsylvania...
...clouds; dropped to 500 ft. Hot air over the city pushed him up again, enabled him to float serenely through the Delaware Water Gap. With the skyscrapers of Manhattan just visible in the distance, he ran out of clouds again, dropped to 200 ft. over the flat Jersey countryside, was forced to land at an airport in Basking Ridge.* He had missed his father's prize money by five miles...
...BACHELOR FLAT MYSTERY-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Mr. Tolfree takes over the task of protecting a Lord's young relatives from the cruel world...
Suppressed in Germany but released throughout Britain was a sensationally tart note in which His Majesty's Government broached to the German Government flat charges that Dr. Schacht has so manipulated the Reichsbank's balances of foreign exchange as to have set up "a hidden reserve equal to many times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful...
...been put on the two-price basis. The top price of $2.20 for the Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Georgia games has been supplemented by a second rate of $1.10. Dartmouth, originally set at $3.30, also has the alternative of a half-price, while the Army tilt will command a flat...