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Word: flattest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Dwellers on the world's flattest continent prepared excitedly last week for a great moment now imminent in their history, the opening of a capital city closely patterned on, but designed to eclipse, Washington, D. C. On a high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Canberra | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated by the prosperity and glory that their son brought them. In a year the boy's talent had been worked to collapse. His interpretations became the flattest routine work. Then he fell ill and died. A contrasting case is that of Josef Hoffman, who, beginning as a nine-year-old prodigy of the piano, was allowed to make an initial sensation, and then was taken away from public appearances until he had matured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A New Prodigy | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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