Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor's device?to provide whistling valves on flat tires?is sold for a large sum. As farce, it is weak as barley-water...
...first Harvard-Yale game of the season at New Haven the University team, using Yale ponies, was defeated by a score of 11 to 6, playing on the flat. At the second match Harvard held the Elis to a bare win of 8 to 5 1-2 points...
When a TIME report falls right into our midst on an item as intimately familiar as the one covering Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva (TIME, March 16), it tempts us to read more critically. However, we have no fault to find...
Through his brother-in-law he controlled the Flat Janitors' Union, and his activities also extended into the Meat Cutters' Union. One brother, Edward, was recently indicted for forcing contractors to pay the Sheet Metal Workers' Union 5% on contracts. Another brother, Danny, is serving 14 years in Joliet Penitentiary (see p. 9) for killing a saloonkeeper...
...teams played on a flat basis, although Princeton has a five-goal higher handicap rating than Harvard. The Tigers attack in the opening minutes of the first chukker lived up to the higher rating, but the smooth-functioning offensive launched by the Crimson trio gave them a 3 to 2 lead at the end of the first period. Throughout the game this lead was never over-come by the Princeton horsemen...