Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last phenomenon was deduced by my 12-year-old son in 78 seconds flat and for his sluggishness I will deduct 10? from his weekly allowance...
...lands are not flat; East Akron and Akron are hilly; the word Akron is derived from Greek and means "summit...
...power project. It was notable also in that TVA wholesale rates are 60% as high as private power rates, indicating that with a similar capital reduction private utilities could undersell TVA. "One of the most interesting angles of the allocation report," observed the Wall Street Journal, "is the flat assumption that the market will be obtained for all the power in calculating the earning power of the system. The only way they can do that, at present, of course, is to take the business away from the private utilities...
Like a steel-blue knife blade pressed flat into the heathery Scottish highlands lies 22½-mile Loch Ness. Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp. Relatively young, relatively real to the outside world is "Nessie," the lake's mysterious monster, "seen" every season since...
When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...