Word: flatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many French Canadians were asking that sort of question. In the cities, Quebeckers have always been proud of the purity of their tongue; they bristle when English-speaking visitors call it a patois. Once.it seemed that improved communications (newspapers, the radio and movies) would flatten out regional differences brought by the settlers from Normandy and Brittany, Aunis and He de France. Instead, better communications sped corruption of the language, mainly by "barbarous" Anglicisms...
...must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master; and also the sooty-haired Samson of British industrialization, which threatened to flatten their walled gardens and blot out their bits of blue...
...elliptical (like an egg), 3) tightly spiral (like a watch spring) and 4) loosely spiral (like a pinwheel). The Milky Way is a pinwheel. Sir James reasoned that a spherical galaxy spinning in space, like a whirling ball of soft butter, must spread out at the edges and flatten in the center and become more & more disk-shaped, thus evolving from a ball to a spiral. Therefore, said he, a sphere must be the first stage in galactic evolution and a spiral the last...
Next ripple in the advancing tide was the onetime castle of Baron Munchausen, legendary apostle of the apocryphal. Hard by, in storied Hameln, the tanks had to flatten a fifth of the turreted town before it yielded. Unharmed was the 17th-century house from which the Pied Piper beguiled Hameln's children to their...
...German city under major attack in the last twelve months manufactures some U-boat part. Last week R.A.F. bombers, in their 112th raid on Cologne, made the heaviest attack since May 30, when 5,000 acres and 250 factories were ruined. Last week's raid was timed to flatten Cologne's burgeoning reconstruction, level factories just resuming the production of diesel engines and U-boat batteries. The British dropped 100 two-ton bombs...