Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have to lift my legs, I'd have to get strength, I'd have to get stamina. Any Chinaman can see that." Result: a ten-flat 100 and a university record that managed to stand for five years...
...intermission string quartet played "I Could Have Danced All Night," and would have been horrible if the second violin had not been flat...
Stifled resentment from assertedly "wronged" students appeared last night, directed primarily against the fact that any student who solicits in dormitories must belong to the corporation, which taxes members a flat ten per cent of net profits for services rendered...
...After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face. He's the best-the oldest and the best...
Coaxed outside by a squad of doorbell pushers, some four dozen of the flat-dwelling workers, wives and children watched in a light drizzle as a team of men and women hauled a sizable rubber-tired cart into position at one end of the playground. Quickly the cart pullers-parishioners of nearby St. Philip's Church-set up three canvas walls (painted to resemble an East End living room) on the rough-planked cart, tapped a nearby flat for electricity to operate the homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip...