Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to the porringer is a sugar caster of 1684, quite simple except for some flat, geometric ornament that identifies it with the time and taste of James...
Similarly in another instance the X-ray shadowgraphs probed beneath the surface of a sentimental and flat painting of a "Madonna and Child" attributed to the 15th century Italian, Antonazzo Romano, and discovered underneath it a much more forceful painting. When an accurate copy has been made of the outer painting, or when a colour photograph has been taken, the Fogg technical staff plans to clean off the outer layers of paint and reveal the original and more important work...
...work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program is equally interesting, and includes three short numbers by Scarlatti, a Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E flat in which Madame Novaes is to be the soloist, and Kammermusik No. 1 by Paul Hindemith, modern German composer. This concert, which is to be the first in a series of three, is certainly of a rare and completely admirable type and shows great ingenuity in program construction...
...Deal's Matanuska Valley resettlement project (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.) was that it would supply some of the food which Alaska must otherwise import. Last week in Washington, returned from a month of Alaskan observation, Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas asserted that Matanuska is a flat failure. One-third of its transplanted families, said he, were ready to quit. Though the cost of settling had run to $14,000 per family instead of an anticipated $3,500, the experiment was worth every cent it had cost, declared the Senator, because it had "proved once...
...news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high as 30%, are to be trimmed to a flat 6% annual rate. ..." Better news came from Los Angeles, where a correspondent reported that the State Supreme Court of California had ruled that "there is nothing in the State statutes prohibiting pawnbrokers and personal property brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers...