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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...Farther north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...general Saturday's Children is about a family of drab but amiable nitwits, the Halevys, who exist in a railroad flat on the wrong side of Manhattan's subway tracks. In particular it is about the underprivileged romance of pretty Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) and Rims Rosson (John Garfield), a shy, lovable, half-educated, half-awake johnny who invents gadgets that never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Florrie is the villainess of the comedy. She shows Sister Bobby how to trick Rims into marriage just before he is starting for Manila. At first the Rims Rossons live happily in their $22.50 flat over a garage. Then Bobby loses her job, Rims takes a cut, the bills pile up, the quarrels begin. Soon romance is as far behind as the rent. So Rims leaves Bobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Most Early American church windows were made from ordinary glass that was merely stained. Such windows shut out light and had a flat, ugly effect. To avoid this, Connick uses transparent wavy glass which was colored while being manufactured. The irregularities in this glass are intended to give the window depth, and thus more beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Connick, Window Designer, Talks at Widener | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

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