Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imperfect Perfection. Piano tuning is difficult mainly because the piano is an imperfect musical instrument. It does not possess enough keys to play all the notes in music. (One key, for example, must do for both F sharp and G flat.) The compromise by which piano strings are tuned to represent musical tones that are close in pitch, but not identical, involves a mathematical theory of Einsteinian complexity.* Practically, the problem is to put the piano systematically and artistically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal distances between the black & white keys. In getting each note of the piano just...
...clear sailing MacCallister meets a rival from an exclusive prep-school who, swims across the lake in nothing flat, owns a flashy car, and takes advantage of the opportunities with the Shirley Temple girl that MacCallister has overlooked. But the Horatio Alger wins out amid the thundering hoofs of the trotters and the green grass growing all around, all around, everyone is happy except the audience...
...Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
North of these ports was the Arno River and the German "Gothic" line, largely backed by the Appenines. The weak point was Rimini, in flat land on the Adriatic. If the Allies broke through at Rimini, they could fan out into the Emilian plain, flank the entire line. That would end the Germans in Italy...
...from there we were ordered to carry a wounded German on a stretcher across a field under Partisan fire, back to the cemetery headquarters. Partisan bullets sang by and kicked up dust around us. We ducked and crawled and at one point had to drop the stretcher and lie flat. But a German paratrooper behind us, carefully taking cover, prodded us on with his submachine gun. We reached the cemetery unscathed. Here, at about n, I was separated from Talbot, Fowler and Slade. I did not see them again and have not heard what became of them...