Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torrential rains fell; closed windows in the editorial office of the Houston Post could not keep out the rain; there was half an inch of water on the floor. Rice farmers along the Texas coast watched the tender stalks-the biggest crop in years, ready to harvest-smashed into flat ruin in an instant. East Texas became a country of blinding rain, flooded roads, broken communications, broken windows, stalled cars, banging signs.' Lights went out, but great gas flares burning in the oil fields stretched out like pennants in the wind...
...Russian. During the week tank factories all over the country increased production 20% above previous weeks. BBC sounded like the Moscow radio: "A South Wales factory has already turned out more guns for tanks than was believed possible in the time. A factory in the northwest reported: we are flat out in production and the women are leading the way. From a Midlands factory, the workers and management gave the pledge: all possible support to Russia until the job is finished...
Many a concert classic has been swung higher than Obadiah, but last week a Tchaikovsky theme was swung five different ways at once. The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, played straight, had its popular start in the movies last spring; Mary Astor's make-believe pounding of it in The Great Lie got it widely known as "the Mary Astor Concerto." Freddie Martin recorded it, but neglected to give it lyrics which could be copyrighted. So by last week there were four competing versions...
...Woody Herman (Decca) gave his the most accurate title: Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor...
...most of the students living in Houses, the regulations restricting the number of meals they may cat in other Houses to three a week is a source of bitter and constant annoyance. Now that the flat board rate of $8.50 has been introduced, and undergraduates must pay for 21 meals a week even if they eat at their club, their home, or Dirty Mary's, bookkeeping and budget considerations have bene simplified enough so that the subject of unlimited inter-House meals can be seriously considered at the next meeting of the committee of House masters...