Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch. On the question of building headwater reservoirs, Army Engineers pointed out that it would take over $1,000,000,000 to do any sort of job to compare with their proposed $300,000,000 levee system. Furthermore reservoirs in the headwaters-they are not practical in the flat valleys of the main stream-might not do the trick. A large part of the rain that causes floods falls in the main valleys. The U. S. Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present...
While John Lewis hesitated, Alfred Sloan sent to Secretary Perkins a flat refusal to confer, on the grounds that strikers were still illegally in possession...
...denies everything" and ascribes the whole affair to "a publicity stunt conceived by my press agent, an ex-reporter of the Crimson, who was discharged for misspelling a football player's name in the Athletic Notices." Moreover, the articles mentioned as necessary for the proper Radcliffe spirit, glasses, flat heeled shoes and other paraphernalia, she attacks as "the product of a banal imagination, or rather the product of a banal collective lack of imagination...
...green light crept across the table and hit Alice right in the eyes. To make matters worse, the polished wood of the chair had turned to cast iron beneath her, and so she made her way over to the sofa, stretching herself out flat upon her stomach. This was much more comfortable. The blinding green light was quite far away now, which made it much more difficult to read. But she had been getting sleepy for ever so long now, with one page looking just like the next, so she didn't see that it at all mattered...
...lies in the refusal of Radcliffe dieticians to guarantee Miss Temple three portions per diem of Cocomalt (trade advt.) and strained spinach a la Temple, i.e., with luscious slices of hard-boiled egg. Miss Temple, it was added, has already shown the proper Radcliffe spirit by agreeing to wear flat-heeled shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and, possibly, a ribbon in her hair...