Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed little about the economic crisis. I believe that the sad part of the entire campaign is the rash promises that each party has made. Republicans cause the world to shudder when they talk of continuing the practice of high tariff walls, and both parties have come out flat-footed against the cancellation of war debts. The two major parties have refused to tackle the situation from a sane economic standpoint. The strained international situation cannot be alleviated until the questions of trade and war debts are met with squarely by a conference led by the United States...
...Eagle and Magnolia, subsidiaries of Socony-Vacuum, fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward...
...most widely read of American authors, nevertheless, I do not believe he has received the recognition he deserves from the literary critics. However, I have given no proofs to substantiate my argument of Twain's importance, but have based it entirely upon fact. Being fundamentally opposed to all flat literary questions which are absolutely personal, I have also endeavored to suppress the man's personality...
William Danforth, lately stopped from the Mikado's throne, strode about in the mock-gloom of a black cape and hat, hissing patter-songs between his teeth, or bellowing out a sinister line a quartertone flat, to make your blood run cold...
...Varsity cross country team will meet the M.I.T. harriers in the second race of the season today on the flat course, four and one-half miles in length. Before the Varsity race, the first-year men will run against the M.I.T. Freshmen over a course of three and three-quarters miles...