Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building will be three stories high, and will have a flat roof, unlike surrounding structures. Vanelli aserted that the change from a sloping roof had been necessitated by cost...
Less evident to a nonexpert eye is a difference that will save taxpayers many a dollar. Until recently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed all U.S. currency on flat-bed presses, using moistened paper, a process that took 15 days. Last week's new singles were printed on dry paper on British-made Rotary presses. The new three-day process will substantially trim the wet-printing cost of 1? a bill, and since the bureau makes a lot of money (1,641,488,000 pieces of paper currency in fiscal 1957), the yearly savings will...
During the first night, the sputnik's familiar beep-beep must have been heard by radio or TV, by a great part of the world's population tone music-minded Swedish radio listener firmly asserted that the beep is in A-flat). U.S. experts could not tell at first whether the signal, which alternates between 20 and 40 megacycles, is a mere series of beeps, or whether it carries coded information from instruments in the satellite...
...strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed there was a good deal in it. ¶ Freud believed in the magic of numbers. In early life he greatly...
...avoid "the invasions of the birds," Nivola keeps his bas-reliefs fairly flat, but the play of sunlight and shadow over their pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...