Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...
...other average golfers, he donated a trophy bearing his name to be played for by teams representing the municipal courses of the cities of the U. S. Another golfer, James D. Standish Jr.* of Detroit, put up a cup for the best individual player. Last week, on the flat Salisbury course that sprawls over some moors near Garden City, L. I., began the fourth annual Public Links Tournament. When the diggers, the hookers and the slicers had been cleared away, two stout golfers stood forth to do battle in the finals : stubby William Serrick of Manhattan, who uses a jigger...
...FALL GUY-The trials of a flat-dweller in Manhattan who could not hold his job and nearly went to jail in the last...
...July 12, 1925 Sirs: TIME, June 22, Page 2, gave four ways to decrease the rapidly growing cost of $1 bills, but omitted the most desirable. The chief wear on bills is from crumpling them up in pockets and wallets. Very few carry big wallets that will take bills flat. Women wad and jam them into their tiny purses. Most men and boys merely stuff them in pockets where they are quickly worn out. Expert studies for 50 years have proved that cards or slips can be handled much faster if about the standard international card catalog size...
...defense, basing it on the diversion of the caption of the act from the act itself and on the ambiguity of the indictment. "I am going to argue it [the case] as if it was serious. . . . The Book of Genesis, written when everybody thought the world was flat . . . religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha...