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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of previous efforts. For the medley, the world's record is held by Princeton at 2:51.9, but anything under 3:00.0 is held to be excellent time, and any clocking up to 3:07 a good performance. Harvard's best trio can do around three minutes flat, while the Crimson record...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak h, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...right flank that cut them off from Koivisto. Between Lake Muolaa and the Vuoksi River the Finnish lines broke. Muolaa village fell and the Russians poured into the narrow strip of land just west of Lake Muolaa. Around the north shore of the lake they pushed and, with only flat ground ahead, they soon made contact with the divisions at Kamara. This broke the back of the Mannerheim Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Destroy the White Snakes! | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cellophane's Lincoln | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...busts were exhibited in Manhattan's plushy Knoedler Galleries. Their realism predates the candid camera by a century. Browere's exact method died with his son Alburtus, differed markedly from the usual life mask's heavy layer of plaster or clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson's stern idealism, the Othello glare of youthful Tragedian Edwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Candid Masks | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Although bomb detonations have shattered some windows in his villa, 20 miles from Helsinki, bald, hulking, 74-year-old Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, the Finns' "national treasure," stubbornly refused to leave. Two weeks after the Russo-Finnish war began he left his Helsinki flat for the country. Said friends: "It was the noise [of daily bombings] that drove him out. He has little fear, but the noise was just too unmusical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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