Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor, which caused the biggest rush, the tax increase is a flat $1 a gallon. For a quart of whiskey the additional tax amounts to 25?; for a fifth, it comes to 20?. But whiskey buyers this week found that prices had gone up as much as 50? a quart, 35? a fifth. On radios, the additional tax is 4½%, bringing the total Federal tax to 10%. But radio prices are up a full 10% or more...
Differing from last Saturday's University handicap affair, which was run over a comparatively flat course, tomorrow's race will wind over hill and dale at Riverside, B. U.'s home course...
...small Spanish town lay quietly couched in the hills of the Basque country. The first late April fruits were beginning to fill the thick mountain trees. At the bottom of the hill, just below the town, the reedy flat of el Juncal was calm after its first spring floods, and the streams that had choked it with torrents after the early snow thaws were now seeping in more placidly...
...first place the movies made it plainly evident that the Quaker flat pass early in the game, which that afternoon seemed to be all but glued in the waiting hands of Jack Morgan, Harvard's right end, before it bobbled out--actually was far out of his reach...
...From many a U.S. jukebox, in strict dance time, in moody thumps, Freddie Martin's Bluebird record, Piano Concerto in B Flat, had moved in among the ten best nickel pullers...