Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luckman, who has that kind of Irish, and has rounded up the nation's sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...
...semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...
November nostrum for the Crimson appears to be the short flat or up-the-middle passes. Kenary to end Red Hill, which, when Kenary was at left halfback, usually registered a long toss, will now mean a shorter but probably surer gain...
...prize specialist, 6 ft., 182 Ib. Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure, 35-yd. throw to Bump Elliott that gave Michigan its first score...
...Crimson scored both tallies in the second period. Jim Lowell handed the ball off to Johnny White for the first score to cap a 38-yard drive, and a few minutes later White tossed a flat forward to Dick Tolf who went over to put the Yardlings in the lead...