Word: flatteringly
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...measuring how far its spectral lines have shifted, in a given period, toward the red or violet end of the spectrum. If the lines redden, that implies the galaxy is receding from the observer, stretching out its light-waves, just as a train whistle lengthens its sound-waves, becomes flatter as it moves into the distance. Every galaxy which astronomers have spectrographed, except five comparatively near Earth, has shown this red shift...
...flatter ourselves that what we write you here will change your course...
Promptly Artist Katz retorted: "I would sooner risk my reputation as an honest artist than change that mural. The young generation demands facts and asks the artist not to flatter but to tell of life as it is. In that mural I expressed an ideal honestly and with all the powers of my background and training, and without any frivolity or monkey business...
...expected to win many with flash and finesse. Last week brought the first major test of his capabilities as a Speaker and he prepared to make it a great demonstration, to show doubters once & for all that the Democratic majority in the House could and would roll opposition flatter than a sheet of tissue paper. When it was all over, however, and Speaker Byrns was nervously mopping his perspiring brow, doubters held as firmly as ever to their doubts...
...FLATTER ME WITH SO MUCH SPACE, SO I SHALL CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO ONLY TWO OF THE MANY INACCURACIES IN YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT ME AND MY WORK ON P. 70 OF YOUR JAN. 7 ISSUE...