Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession. To Admiral Clark had fallen the assignment of pretending to lead his force as an enemy fleet to the capture of Oahu, from which a thrust at the U. S. mainland would follow...
...yard dash, W. D. Hardwick '36 swept through the three heats without being seriously threatened, although a handicap of five feet, one inch served him in good stead. His time was five seconds flat. T. W. Williamson, who is also a Freshman, was only two-fifths of a second behind Hardwick...
...discovers Leo and Gilda comfortably sinning in an attractive London flat. Both, however, pine for their absent crony Otto. Gilda, it appears, is not so happy as she might be with Leo's theatrical success. While he is away at a houseparty, up bobs Otto, fresh from a voyage on a tramp steamer. "The circle has turned," says he, "and it's my turn now." But next morning Gilda leaves notes for both her lovers, goes off to Manhattan to marry an art broker and find, she hopes, peace. When Leo and Otto meet and read their letters...
...make a fingerpainting a large sheet of wet glazed paper is spread flat on a marble or linoleum-covered table and big blobs of colorful sludge dropped on it. This is sloshed about with both hands, the finger nails, even the elbows, without conscious effort at drawing, until the amateur artist likes the result. The teacher is then called and the work given a name-"A Greedy Horse with a Long Neck," "Men Fishing Before They Are Drowned"-and the picture, the table and the child set aside to dry. Inventor Shaw is extremely proud of the fact that after...
...materfamilias-diarist has a husband, two children, temperamental Mademoiselle and house in the country on her hands. But her first book, written in snatched moments from household tasks and village society, has begun to sell; a Career dawns. When the children are away at school she takes a flat in London, ventures into literary society, even attends a Literary Conference at Brussels. Between whiles she struggles gamely against the never-ending havoc of domesticity. At the end she is, as usual, looking for a cook, but next year, she says, she would like...