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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bruce Barton. Tall, impressively flat-waisted in the House's wallow of paunches, his auburn hair attractively wavy, an honest apple-cheeked smile, Mr. Barton, 53, seems the epitome of the wholesome U. S. businessman. If the 1928 cry for a businessman in the White House (Herbert Hoover) should be revived, Mr. Barton's candidacy would be even more obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...flat opposition to a recent Student Council statement, a group of seven undergraduates last night called upon the University to provide some from of vocational guidance here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT GROUP URGES VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

They go in strongly for flat statements at St. John's in diagnosing the ills of modern education. Their aim is to remove "the state of intellectual bastardy in which the average college graduate today rejoices." To legitimize his intellect the St. John's student spends four rigorous years learning to know his intellectual forefathers...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Head of Liberal Education Committee Reviews St. John's College; Describes Working of New Program | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...hacking around in the Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost earless, capped by a queer headpiece, it looks something like a subthyroid football player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Stone Faces | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Hitler made him organizer of the Storm Troops. In the Munich Putsch of November 1923 Göring marched at the head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated his shoulder. Göring also fell, wounded in the thigh. Old Man Ludendorff marched on alone, firing his pistol until he was captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No. 2 Nazi | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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