Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permissions were granted so freely that by 1849 less than one-sixth of the College was in Commons. By this time the whole business had become a white elephant, until, under the inexpert hands of outside speculators, it proved a flat failure, and was abandoned...
...among rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...
Argentine Love is another of those tense little international affairs with Ricardo Cortes in this corner representing the Argentine and James Rennie in that corner representing the U. S. The prize is Bebe Daniels. Stiletto fights, dark Spanish threats and flat silk hats are dealt out to the performers by Director Alan Dwan. Follow six rounds of pretty hot going. Kid Cortez is finally killed and Kid Rennie marches back to the U. S. with the prize under his arm. Witnesses call it a good fight...
...Second class postal rates are composed of two parts: A low flat rate on editorial matter; a higher rate, increasing by zones, on advertising matter. An issue of a publication is brought to a post office and weighed in bulk. The percentage of editorial and advertising matter is then calculated from a single copy. The rates are assessed in proportion and charged to the publisher...
...energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck, 18 with the top of the clock at the bow. The air of the broadside wind will follow the path of least resistance and move with, and in the same rotational direction as, the surface of the cylinder. When air passes rapidly over any surface, it produces suction...