Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series of notes, illiterately penned by Furrier Berg at dictation of his captors, reached his frightened wife and lawyer...
This year Michigan's famed forward-passing quarterback, Benny Friedman, has been a Yale coach, showed Yale backs how to throw short, quick, flat passes. Yale has a heavy, inexperienced line and almost a plethora of seasoned, versatile backs. Best back and captain is 144-lb. Albert J. ("Albie") Booth Jr. whose father works in a New Haven gun factory...
...intercollegiate football really belongs in the "Whither-Are-We-Drifting" Department which is better equipped to view with alarm the growing tendency. The least interesting part of every football season is the public bleating that has accompanied it for the last four or five years, a sort of flat, dull noise emanating mostly from flat, dull people...
...lest Japan and Russia shoot it out over Manchuria focused the world's eye on Moscow one day last week. Mist shrouded the Red Square. Through wisps of white the pointed towers of the Kremlin looked down like medieval alchemists in tall, peaked hats; at one corner of the flat-topped red granite tomb of LENIN stood Dictator Joseph Stalin, the Red War Lord?if he should choose to declare...
...occurred the first major crack in their solid front. New York Central admitted that it was dickering with its 115,000 employes (December 1929: 170,061) to accept voluntarily a 10% pay reduction for one year. Reason: the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to grant the carriers a flat 15% freight rate increase...