Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's world's records came in the 800-metre finals. England had won at 800 metres in the last three Olympic Games. At the finish last week a skinny, spectacled Oxonian named Tom Hampson won for England again in 1149.8. After breaking the tape, Hampson fell flat on his face beside the track. He managed to stand up without help when the band played "God Save the King." Second to Hampson by a foot was Alexander Wilson of Canada, who had raced him stride for s tride over the last 100 yd. Third was Phil Edwards, Canadian Negro...
...companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
...past levied a flat assessment upon the Radio chains, permitting them to use any song by its members. In 1931 it received $960,000 from broadcasting, which it prorated among its composers, authors and publishers of the world. In the U. S. the average composer got $630 during the year; a hit-composer between $2,000 and $2,500. Tin Pan Alley feels this is not enough. Total time sold on the air last year brought Radio some 75 millions. From January to June this year, National Broadcasting Co. Inc. grossed $15,000,000, an increase...
...Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...bookkeeper in a San Francisco bank, held and hated it for 13 years. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while later in Manhattan he underwent an operation, was in bed for months. Says he: "It was while I was flat on my back, after that operation, that I became 'John Martin.' . . . There has been a deep and strong undercurrent in my life, an urge that kept pushing me on. It was a great love of children, a desire to give them something of the joy and understanding my mother...