Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated that the huge Stinnes interests (mines, railways, shipping lines, newspapers, hotels, etc.) had been recognized as top-heavy by the late Hugo Stinnes himself and that "Junior" Stinnes-who recently broke with his elder brother (TIME, June 8) because dual control of the huge concern was a flat failure-will centralize the interests as far as possible and sell a number of holdings which were considered as temporary investments. It was also pointed out that the mere fact that Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and a number of other prominent bankers had met to lend Stinnes money was a good...
...oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...
...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...
...meet last year, and the Elis expect him to repeat that performance this spring. Lundell and Miller are distinctly obstacles to be considered in the way of this champion. Peck is another Crimson runner who should give Norton opposition. Both Peck and Lundell ran the 220 in 22 seconds flat against Princeton, equalling the dual meet record. It is true that Norton is in the habit of sprinting the 220 in something like 21 2-10 seconds, and it is also true that he is a distinct favorite against Harvard. In the 100 his 9 4-5 time also gives...
...that Mr. Flavin has had an artistic success and a flat failure, he is ripe to do something rather fine and durable...