Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staring glassily through his myopic eyes, and nodding his flat, imperial head, Hirohito gave approval to military plans which launched Japan upon a great national adventure...
...young woman with extraordinary ears -definitely cup-shaped instead of reasonably flat-recently presented herself for examination at Chicago's Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
...personal holding companies (including yachts, racing stables, estates and foreign corporations) ; outlawing "wash sales," for income-tax deductions, between corporations 50%-owned by the same, individual or between any corporations and a personal holding corporation; eliminating $1,000 income-tax exemption for trusts; .normal taxes, instead of a flat 10% on nonresident aliens' incomes over...
...earth is flat...
...teachers at Princeton, where he graduated in 1909. One day when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century...