Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
Chiropodists in convention at one of the hostelries were caught flat-footed by the influx. "I think that these new ankle-length skirts are dangerous to foot-health," newly-elected president Max Fessendon muttered archly...
...poor condition, the Varsity trainer encourages his charges to get into top physical shape and stay that way all season, with no letdowns for "just one Lucky or one quick beer." The only time a player may legitimately partake of anything stronger than rootbeer is when he's flat on his back on the field inhaling from a bottle of ammonia. On this point, the Varsity footballers agree. "What the hell," most of them will tell you, "it's just common sense...
...character of the modern Don Juan, who is unable to live up to his paradoxically ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players...
...Mikkola's standards, last year's Varsity would up considerably below Dean's List, winning four and losing five including the Yale meet. They had hill trouble. On the flat they ran like greyhounds, only to collapse at the mere sight of an upgrade. Having to practice on the level University riverbank path for lack of transportation elsewhere was thought to be the cause...