Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closest race of the afternoon was won by E. P. Parker '34, who nosed out Meany of the Boys Club in the 100-yard free style with a time of one minute flat. Meany was closely followed by George Wightman '34. The first-year swimmers' other first place came in the 100-yard breast stroke event, when A. C. Dearing '34 turned in a time...
Manhattan Island's flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
...politely. But he will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat area where thousands of steelworkers dwell. The bank was established 21 years ago, and there are only two larger ones in the city. Several years ago it was rebuilt, given a black marble front, four marble pillars two and a half stories high. Its interior was redecorated. The steelworkers...
...32nd Street: The wind sniffed like a happy cat At scuttling beetle-people, The sunshine would have roused a flat To try and be a steeple. My breakfast in me warm and staunch, Your letter in my pocket, The world's a coon that's climbed a branch And I am David Crockett...
Gilbert was 32 and wrote novels which critics praised and readers failed to buy. Elizabeth was 24 and worked long hours in a woman's wear shop. They lived in an ugly and inconvenient flat in London, got on each other's nerves almost daily. Elizabeth's family disapproved of Gilbert from the beginning and tried to make him take his old job teaching at their boys' school. They thought it was a shame Elizabeth had to work, but admired her success, despised his failure. Then one of his novels somehow caught on. Thai nearly finished...