Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrival in Manhattan of Mr. & Mrs. Leon Trotsky as exiles was uneventful. He was born a Bronstein, she a Rosenfeld, and The Bronx is full of Bronsteins and Rosenfelds. Among these kinsmen some soon appeared who helped Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky find a suitable three-room flat on Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, enabled them to buy $200 worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting...
...which aspired to fill the place of the American Mercury in its palmy days. Lead-off article, from no loudspeaker but from the pen of Historian James Truslow Adams, was a thoughtful audit of the "state of the Union." George E. Sokolsky, writing on John L. Lewis, made the flat assertion that the United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile plant in the country." Humorist Robert Benchley was represented with a wry piece on international conferences, the New York World-Telegram's Radio Editor...
...takes place in Paine Hall tomorrow evening, is composed entirely of eighteenth century music. The works to be heard are Mozart's String Quartet in F major (K. 590), Carl Stamitz's Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 19, No. 1, and the same composer's Quartet in B flat major for Oboe and Strings...
...virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great anthropoid apes, and because of its well-developed social and monogamic habits. Yet less is known of the gibbon in its wild state than about any other primate of comparable importance. Therefore Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little...
...Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen shot back a flat refusal, insisting that bargaining must be by individual plants. Furthermore, declared stocky, blunt-spoken Mr. Knudsen: "Sit- downs are strikes. Such strikers are clearly trespassers and violators of the law of the land. We cannot have bona fide collective bargaining with sit-down strikers in illegal possession of plants. Collective bargaining cannot be justified if one party, having seized the plant, holds a gun at the other party's head...