Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought out of his winnings. The difference in their...
...climate that God should provide. But snow did not come to protect the seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found the soil all but bare on 13,000,000 of his 40,000,000 acres. Last week's report showed that 32.2% of last fall's plantings had been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested...
...half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land to the Government. Total Government investment...
...Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter than it has been for 31 years. It will not open until...
...ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when, a misty old lady self-imprisoned at the scene of her crime, she still clings to her innocence when interviewed by a reporter. Nine Pine Street makes one wait a long time between...