Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenious Chinese government last week had Japan guessing whether the chief of their Air Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements -the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha...
...Yale boys gypp. This suspicion long prominent in the minds of Harvard Undergraduates, was substantiated last night when it was reliably learned that the Yale flat-feet had used large balls instead of the agreed-on small spheroids in the Yale-Harvard bowling contest held February 18 between the Yard police of the rival institutions...
...manufacture and market Iceolite, at a price of $2.50 per sq. ft. A rink 100 ft. by 50 would thus cost $12,500, but would last a long time. Scratches and shavings cut by skate blades could be melted back smoothly into the rink's surface with flat irons (see cut). The irons would also be used to meld the cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks 2 by 3 ft. and 1½ in. thick. They can be laid on any level surface-wood, concrete, steel...
...while poking about the musical archives of London's British Museum, he happened to come across manuscripts of a 17th-Century English music for viols. Violinist Dolmetsch had heard 17th-Century scores revived by modern musicians on modern instruments, and, like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began to see that they contained subtleties that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction...
...merely preoccupied with its past, the eminently practical Latter-Day Saints Church last week was planning solidly for its future. Before the Federal Communications Commission was an application for a Mormon short-wave radio station, to be built on the flat terrain, favorable for transmission, near the Great Salt Lake...