Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kendall and Hutter will stage their battle in the 150-yard free style swim. Neither of the boys has raced this distance officially before; but Hutter holds the Harvard and the Pool records for the 100-yard free style at 52 seconds flat, and last year Bill Kendall did the same distance in 53.8 seconds. The world's record in the 150-yard event...
...want to see some sweet Quinces, just drop around to the Elks this afternoon," asserted Morrissey, confident that his original club would live up to its claim to the all-flat championship of New England. The Yale Daily News...
These three men are Rostrum, Hatch, and Noonan. Frank Coleman will probably experience considerable difficulty with Rostrum in the 440-yard free style; the latter has hung up a time of five minutes flat, which is several seconds under Coleman's fastest clocking this season. But under heavy competition, Frank will undoubtedly better his own best...
...easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability to say nothing with so much...
...over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical commissioners are getting out of bad leases, and that, according to Scotland Yard, "There is no need to capture girls and chain them up . . . . because conditions in London today are such that...