Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this land Germans, Scandinavians, Czechs, and Bohemians settled. Thrifty, industrious races they have made the whole state one enormous farm...
...passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap of any sort so far being a flat tire...
...probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared in Paris, has breathed prim New England into his model...
...rose flat crepe street dress...
...rebellion against the French (1922-27) it was several times stated by correspondents that the French commanders from General Maurice Sarrail down were wantonly cruel in suppressing the rebellion, and, in some cases, incompetent. Naturally the French Government could take only one attitude toward such charges at the time, flat denial; but last week War Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under his command in Syria last year, to have withheld from this...