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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen thousand fans had paid over $60,000 to see Henry Armstrong because he had once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spirit Was Willing | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Critics agreed that the collages were gay and witty. Nearly everybody agreed that they were decorative and colorful. Many of them are done in Varda's favorite shade of violent pink. Varda charges a flat rate of $75 a collage. "Soixante-quinze [75]," he says, "just like the French guns in the World War." So far he has sold eight pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperfectionist | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Bullets cracked and sang by our ears, causing everyone to throw himself flat on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...standards his last race was a failure. Competing with two top-flight U.S. runners he did no better than 4:06.9, far short of the still unattainable mark of four minutes flat which many a Hägg fan hoped he might hit on his U.S. tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Man, New Standards | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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