Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just reading the second line of the first paragraph of the article "Indiana-Purdue Deadlock" [TIME, March 16]. Quoting "To that state, flat as a huge gymnasium floor"-where do you think Indiana is? Out on the Texas Panhandle? True, we do have level areas but some of our best players come from down in them thar hills. Whoever wrote the article must have been too young to have read Abe Martin and have seen the pictures that went with it. Why, the New Deal says one-third of Indiana is so rough and hilly it should be made...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Foreign Minister von Neurath, stewed over the White Paper most of a day and a night. Next afternoon von Ribbentrop and his aides appeared at Templehof Airport with a locked briefcase, boarded a plane, landed at dusk in London, where a "No!" but not a flat refusal to negotiate was expected to come out of the briefcase. It was understood that the German counterproposals would be amplified "orally...
Nothing better illustrates the fallacy of the "big double bill" type of program than the current offering at the Paramount and Fenway. "The Widow from Monte Carlo" tries so hard to be a smart, sophisticated, gay comedy, and it falls flat with a dull thud that resounds throughout the theatre...
Beside the company's railroad spur stood a mammoth flat-topped trailer. Flat on the trailer lay a circular crate, nearly 18 ft. across, made of reinforced sheet steel. Inside, protected by close-packed felt and rubber, was the biggest and costliest piece of glass in the world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced...
...track waited a specially-built freight car. Flat and without sides, it was so cut down in the centre that its bottom was only 5^ in. above the rails. Its wheels were only 26 in. in diameter instead of the standard 33 in. A huge railroad crane lifted the mirror slowly to a vertical position, swung it clear of the trailer. Inch by inch it was lowered into the railroad car. For a half-hour it was allowed to settle comfortably into the recess. Then the New York Central Railroad man telephoned his home office that the loading was complete...