Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin leads a rather lonely life with his placid, greyish wife Florence, usually stays at a small, homelike flat on the top floor of the Foreign Office. He is rabidly jealous of his privacy and coldly forbidding toward most reporters. Confided one London correspondent last week: "The only way to get him is to call the Foreign Office switchboard and say in a firm voice: 'The flat, please...
...Flat Space? Some of the astronomers were concentrating on the distant galaxies -or on space itself. One space-gazer (Señor Luis Enrique Erro of the Mexican Astrophysical Observatory) began to throw serious doubts on Einstein's theory of "curved space." Einstein's doctrine, applied to study of the distant galaxies, which seem to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, had made the universe appear too young, said Señor Erro. It seemed only a billion years old by Einsteinian reckoning. But geologists have pretty well proved that even the earth is twice...
...proposed to substitute a theory developed by the late Dr. George D. Birkhoff of Harvard. Applied to the runaway galaxies, the Birkhoff idea would make the universe act its age. It would also reduce the universe's galaxy population to a mere eleven billion. "Birkhoff space" is flat, not curved. But laymen who imagine that that might make it easier to understand should be warned that it is both "flat and four-dimensional...
Official "errors," Pratt conceded, are a concomitant of war. "The novelty ... is the continuing official insistence that the official lies were perfectly true. ... A flat lie from the Navy Department about the loss of the cruisers off Savo Island eventually had to be corrected. . . . The really dangerous, because far more numerous, instances are those in which no corrective has been applied . . . because the event is not sufficiently newsworthy to bother with after the facts do become known...
Like many another war baby, Cleve land's loudly self-advertised Jack & Heintz, Inc. was knocked flat Tby war's hurried exit. But last week Jahco was getting back on its feet. There were some 2,000 old associates (employes) back at work, and short, sport-shirted President William S. Jack was rehiring at the rate of 1,000 a month. Most of the old benefits, soft music, free lunches, etc. were still in force, except one. Take-home pay had been cut 53%, though Bill Jack said pay will still average $2,900 a year...