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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Significant Women | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Varsity meet will be held on the flat course of approximately four and a quarter miles, starting on the Cambridge side of the river, while the Freshmen will urn the regular course. Both races will finish at Newell Boathouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Meet B. U. Runners On Cambridge Course Today | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...Pioneers broke a long string of unbroken losses when Davy Jones crossed the goal line late in the second period and a moment later added the extra point on a flat pass to Lynn Pratt. The score came after a march beginning after the third period was half over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland in House Football Lead; Elephants Upset | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

Earlier in the program, the combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/13/1938 | See Source »

...Wind, achieves her own mannerisms, drawls her own lingo,* spits her own fire. Actress Claire plays her admirably. A terror for house parties in real life, Cindy Lou is the makings of one on the stage. By comparison with Cindy Lou, Playwright Boothe's wisecracking cutthroats are dramatically flat. While they smack balls at one another's heads, Cindy Lou, her toe dug into the baseline, drops unplayable shots at her opponents' feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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