Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated airplane flights made it obvious that one of Ethiopia's greatest chieftains, Ras Mulugheta, was entrenched there in force. Sprawling sidewise to the Italian advance, Amba Aradam was of two parts: a jagged ridge known to the Italians as "The Herringbone" and, at the extreme right, a flat-topped peak called "The Priest's Hat." All the land at its base was known as the Enderta. Through the same telescope, when the clouds cleared, could be seen Alaji, another mountain about 30 miles further on. These two peaks were main pegs in Ethiopia's defense...
...front cover & pictures, pp. 24 & 25) Backward, flat-faced Mongols were last week suddenly up in arms and out with up-to-date battle planes, spitting Death...
...Voroshilov. Since the Soviet Secret Service is definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat-faced, greasy Premier Gendun of Outer Mongolia and his Commissars, entertained them lavishly in the Kremlin, plied them with vodka, questioned them closely, made friends. Eyes on Map. Above what is effectively Chinese territory today (see map) lie Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia, inner Mongolia and Manchukuo. Sinkiang these days appears...
Haydn's Symphony in E flat No. 99 opens the program at the regular Friday and Saturday symphony concerts in Boston. As the figure indicates, it is number 99 of a series of 104 symphonies published by the enormously productive composer; it was written in 1793 for use in Baydn's second trip to London...
Professor Perry, "Origin of American Democratic Doctrine", Emer A. Also at ten I note Professor Ballantine will comment upon and play the Beethoven Sonata in A flat, Opus 110. Music Building...