Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to know about this incident because I heard the details firsthand from my aunt, Mrs. H. Allari, who was Harry Bridges' neighbor for several years. She lived at No. 2840 Pine Street, San Francisco, on the left side of the "five-room flat to a five-room house" from which the Bridges are moving next week...
...those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...
...Plug the Tax-Loophole" Bill, which would place a 65% to 75% levy on personal holding companies, including yachts and racing stables and foreign holding companies; require officers and directors of foreign holding companies to file returns every month; apply regular surtax levies instead of a flat 10% to nonresident aliens' income from this country, on incomes exceeding $21,600. Additional revenue expected: 50 to 100 millions...
...Mayo Clinic is a partnership of a few men headed by the Brothers Mayo. They and all their staff receive flat yearly salaries and collect no fees. For example, the late Edward Starr Judd, their nephew by marriage and like them a onetime president of the American Medical Association, received $75,000 a year. "Fellows" who work in the Clinic, and who must have interned elsewhere, average $70 a month and keep. Typists and secretaries average $100 a month...
...from the declining sun the harvest will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...