Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany, having plumped hard for a "nonpolitical" Pope, was rewarded with a man who was not only potentially the most political of all the Cardinals, but also one who, as Papal Nuncio to Germany from 1920 to 1929, knows plenty about specifically German politics. The German press was as flat and as quiet as a Cardinal's hat over the choice. The official Italian press, having urged an Italian Pope, was politely thankful. In Britain, France, the U. S. and many another libertarian State, there was universal joy that the man who had helped shape the brave, humane policies...
Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...
Curwen managed to win the century in the surprisingly slow time of 56 flat, while Vergeichik and Harvard' Powers almost swam a dead heat for second, the Lion natator getting the decision. The explanation of Curwen's slow time is that his arm was caught around a lane-marker. Bosworth's 1:43.3 in the 150-yard dorsal event was fast in view of his dubious health, Tom Finnerty barely came in ahead of Craig Moore for second...
...Crimson came back in the last period to play their opponents off their feet. It must also be taken into consideration that the Yale team ranks five goals higher than the Crimson, and were it not for the fact that all college games are played on the flat, the contest would have ended...
...made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that a red patch seems to advance and a Violet patch to recede, to the most ingenious refinements All paintings, as painters see them, are merely areas of certain colors on flat canvas. Cubism made pictures which everybody could see that...