Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt men declared that their candidate would get 40 of them without a contest, probably 50, possibly 60. Smith men insisted that the Brown Derby would carry most of the State and a majority of the delegation. In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania the "Stop Roosevelt" movement will succeed or fall flat...
Wilbur Glenn Voliva ("The Earth is flat"), general overseer of Zion City, Ill., observed his 62nd birthday by announcing his new diet: buttermilk and Brazil nuts only...
...From his flat-topped walnut desk in the far corner Col. Young can step to a wall map and survey the domain which he helped to build and over which he rules. There a network of dark lines traces 21,764 mi. of airway. Scattered white pins mark the nation's 2,034 airports. Lighted emergency landing fields stand out as 382 green pins while 53 blue pins designate radio beacons, 1,567 red pins, rotating beacon lights, 386 nickel pins, acetylene blinkers...
Like 999, Sir Malcolm's Blue Bird is hard to start. It has two small motors for this purpose. After training for six months (not drinking, smoking very little) and after waiting two weeks for a day when the wide flat beach would be sufficiently dry and smooth, Sir Malcolm Campbell last week had Blue Bird brought from the shed in which he keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like...
...Manhattan, a few months ago, four black brothers were hanging around Harlem jobless. Four years ago vaudeville all over the U. S. was flat on its back. Talking pictures, long & short, were filling entire bills. But talking "shorts" did not satisfy. Today, cinemansions are putting on 60% more flesh & blood acts than in 1929. Radio-Keith-Orpheum spent $12,000,000 on its vaudeville last year. The four Mills Brothers, their engagement at Manhattan's Palace Theatre extended for a third time, rolled about town last week in their automobile driven by a liveried chauffeur...