Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been opened with the Professor's own latchkey. Sheets were hung over the windows. His expensive fur coat and 1,000 rubles ($500) were gone. His clothes, his books, his bric-a-brac, every article of value had been gathered together and tied up in neat little flat packages. Moscow detectives inspected the room, retired to cogitate, emerged with a theory. Said the spokesman...
...early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played brilliantly at Wimbledon, polished off his reputation in the Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired...
...tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken to jail. She says good-bye to the young Jew (William Collier Jr.) who lives on the ground floor, packs her belongings...
...divide any angle into three equal parts, using only straight lines and circles in the construction. Thousands of mathematicians have sought to solve that problem. It is comparatively easy of solution with a peculiarly linked chain or by means of complex curves which no compass can draw on a flat surface; but impossible, mathematicians generally agree, with the simple tools of straightedge and compass...
...clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...