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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After scoring on the second play of the game when Dave Wilton intercepted an Outhousor flat pass and ran for 60 yards, Dunster could do nothing with the large Yard line. The Outhousors had their troubles too, but tied up the game in the last period when Feder went around end for their score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Capture League Top While Dunster, Yard Tie | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Appraisers Come Home | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...sizable bill of particulars could be drawn up against High Button Shoes: much of the score is commonplace, most of the lyrics are mediocre and great gobs of the humor fall flat. But the show has a redeeming bounce; it has a good comic (when he has good comedy) in Actor Silvers; it has a girl with looks and personality in Nanette Fabray. Most of all, it has a brilliant choreographer in Jerome Robbins (On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). Robbins' best offering: a hilarious Mack Sennett ballet which grows into a masterpiece of controlled pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Another New Musical | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...reward of the former Czech president's nephew, and eventually the same for even the one unlucky rider stopped by a flat, was not the kiss of former years but a cookie and a cup of cider. Later the weary peddlers also enjoyed a brief picnic with the Wellesley greeting committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Benes Leads Pack in Waban Cycle Classic | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Installed at Waban's Munger Hall, a new buzzer system has helped set a college record of two minutes flat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phone Belles Ask Patience From Callers | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

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