Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...science requirement, the course is much patronized by those to whom the rigours of an actual science would be distasteful. But it has rigours of its own, and the unorthodox will learn that a laboratory without labor is of all the creations of man the most weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. The subject matter purports to deal with man and his habitat, but it soon develops into nothing more than a series of bald platitudes, reached by devious roads of deduction, a compendium of the laborious undeniable. The vocabulary is meretricious; the reading matter is not to be borne...
After a sensational three-month spurt President Roosevelt's recovery program was slowing down last week. Farm prices had sagged from July highs, leveled out flat. September business was lagging behind August. NRA had yet to produce its miracle of re-employment. Public works made more headlines than new jobs. Banks were still tight-fisted on credit. Labor troubles pocked the land. Price rises due to NRA tended to cancel out A. A. A. gains in farm purchasing power. President Roosevelt was being bombarded with redoubled demands to turn to direct currency inflation as the one quick, sure means...
...Chicago, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump...
...TIME, Aug. 28), the Farm Administration announced a month ago that it would buy 4, 000,000 young pigs and 1,000,000 farrowing sows at a premium ($9.50 per 100 lb. for 25-pounders down to $6 on 100-pounders, and $4 a head flat on farrowing sows). Farmers expecting better hog prices next year cannily held back their farrowing sows, sold the Government only 200,000 up to last week. But so eager were farmers to be rid of young hogs that shipments poured in. With over 3,000,000 already received the Administration raised its quota last...
...rising prices which paper money brought with it, not the paper money itself, that precipitated industrial collapse in the inflation-ridden countries of post-war Europe. It is not necessary to have studied economics to discern that if flat money is issued only as fast as the industrial machine can produce then prices do not rise; and that if prices do not rise, no harm is done...