Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the job was finished, there would be nothing dingy about the seat of Soviet Government; even the hundreds of murals and icons in the Kremlin's many churches would be restored. Strolling through the Great Palace, where Generalissimo Stalin directed the war from his four-room flat, the correspondents inspected the imperial apartments. In the study, for which the last of the Tsars had no use after 1917, a golden clock ticked away. It was on time...
...until Wednesday a week ago) Mrs. Thompson and Craig Jr. were feeling pretty foresighted about already having had their inoculations and many weeks of Russian-language study from phonograph records. Then at noon Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an official voice told the Thompsons they could have space on the Warren Delano, bound for Constanta in Rumania-if they could report with their baggage and their papers the very next day! (Rumania isn't Russia, but this was the best offer yet, so Mrs. Thompson said okay...
...Mineral Taxation Act (and its amending Act of 1945), which imposes a flat annual 3ٕ-an-acre tax on mineral rights, a tax of up to ten mills per dollar on the assessed value of minerals...
...Filene's department store. Along with the stuff that was just what Hitler ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria...
Engineer Severud does not go so far as Architect Wright, who thinks that Manhattan buildings should have floors which ascend spirally. Says Severud: "It is inconvenient to live and work on surfaces which are not flat and level...