Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While bindery employees received a flat five cents an hour raise, a graded increase of five, six, and seven cents an hour will give top janitors $217. The police salary increase was $50 a year...
...darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute the musician's bible and byword: Bach's great Wohltemperirtes Clavier (Well-Tempered Clavier...
...Ministry's death-cellars. No one writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory is safe from the skilled glance of the Thought Police. Slowly but surely, the old English language, with its treasury of dangerous thoughts and mischievous expressions, is being steamrollered flat and converted into "Newspeak"-a toneless, crimethink-less cablese...
Like a smart tennis player, Cyrus Eaton had more than once caught the Securities & Exchange Commission flat-footed in its long battle to revoke the underwriting license of his investment house, Otis & Co. SEC charged that Eaton had instigated a suit against Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and then used the suit to get out of underwriting a stock issue for K-F when it seemed that Otis might lose millions on the deal. Eaton neatly handled that hot serve. He sued SEC in the U.S. District Court. It ruled that there was insufficient evidence against Otis. SEC took the case...
...Scot of Cambridge will run in both the quarter and the half. He has been clocked at 49 flat in the 440. A 49.4 quarter by Jack Lohnes of Yale won the Crimson-Blue meet...