Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library of his Manhattan home, dressed and ready for dinner, John Pierpont Morgan sat down at a flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help...
...banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their boat all day. On the fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled...
...wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying, to whip a triphammer. Madison Square Garden, jammed to the eaves, thundered with bloodthirsty applause and excitement...
...Alarmed London and Belfast (the capital of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland) by this flat statement...
Egremont and Forbra fought for the lead the second time around. Coming to the last fence but one, Egremont was a stride ahead but Forbra passed him at the last jump, stood off a challenge on the flat and was three lengths in front at the wire, with Shaun Goilin a slow third and five others-Near East, Aspirant, Heartbreak Hill, Annandale, Sea Soldier-plunging after them to the finish...