Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aired Out. In Madrid, London-bound Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare left the Embassy for the airport, found four flat tires on his automobile and a sign: "The gasoline may be British, but the air is still Spanish...
...great Jesse Owens in 1935. With the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump safely tucked away, the stubby freshman was leading by 30 feet in the 220 low hurdles when he kicked over the last barrier, lost his footing on the rain-drenched cinders, and fell flat...
...helpful and cooperative nature. Gladly will they darn your socks, wash your clothes, share their limited food rations with you, . . . listen to your bragging about central heating and then apologize for what five years of war have done to what appears to me a beautiful little island after the flat dry desolation of Texas and the stinking swamps of Louisiana...
From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
...story of his discovery is legendary. Back in 1928 Alexander Fleming, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S.,* taught bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In his small, old-fashioned laboratory, he grew staphylococci in petri plates (flat glass culture dishes). One day he found that mold had spoiled one of his cultures. Staphylococcus grew on only half of the plate. A blue-green mold spotted, but did not cover, the other half...