Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
...Goddam, I ought to know better," the lieutenant said. "I heard those rockets railroading down on me and I didn't get flat enough. Piece of something hit me in the stomach." He tried to grin...
Last January, the Tennyson committee's first skeleton-simple, material-&-labor-saving Utility Furniture was on sale: 45 designs of 17 essential pieces. Wood was used only for legs, struts and supports. Metal was allowed only for bedsprings. All flat surfaces were made of a compressed wood fiber ⅛ inch thick called hardboard...
...annually (to a total of 200,000,000 lb.). He was all set to use rayon cord in all medium and heavy synthetic tires for the Army. To the outraged protests of cotton Senators (who called Jeffers before the Senate's Agricultural Committee) Jeffers gave a flat answer: the Army wanted rayon; the Army was going to get it. Army tests, he said, had proved rayon had higher tensile strength than cotton, greater resistance to heat...
...Wynn's new revue begins August 30. Sanders Theatre Concerts Boston Symphony Orchestra Second Programme, July 25 Under the direction of Bernard Zighera Toccata, Bouree, and GigaScarlatti-Casella Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Shubert I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme...