Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Dining Halls are under a moral obligation since the new flat rate was adopted last spring not to raise the board rate until June", Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, said yesterday. Thus, despite the fact that they have suffered a deficit of $130,000 in the last twelve months, the Dining Halls are in no position to increase the weekly cost of meals unless "the students themselves take up the matter through the Student Council", he explained...
When alternative plans for meeting the mounting deficit in the Dining Halls were suggested. Durant showed that none of them were as satisfactory as the present arrangement. Many students have balanced their whole budget on the assumption that the University meant what it said when it instituted the $8.50 flat rate last June...
...Indian troops garrisoning Bengasi fought well against hopelessly superior odds, but the flat seaport, which had already been pounded by three assaults since the North African campaign began, was not fortified for a siege. Though some of the Indians escaped to the northeast, the Axis claimed that at least one battalion was captured...
...other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...
Harvard men, with or without degrees, will be of little use in our armed forces if they have flat feet, concave chests, or atrophied muscles occasioned by too many hours in Widener. The deplorable physical condition in which many of our supposedly hale and hearty youths find themselves after four years of college will hardly lead to stirring victories in the hills of the Bataan Peninsula or in the sultry jungles of Malaya. It was once hoped that all students would avail themselves of the excellent athletic facilities at Harvard. However, such has usually not been the case, and once...