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Word: flatting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That day on the sunbathed Coral Sea the Jap caught hell. The bombers piled in after the Navy, and planes from both branches went after the enemy hot & heavy with flat bombers, dive-bombers and torpedo-carriers. It was too much. Airmen finally saw the Jap swing around to the north. He had had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...caliber, flat trajectory pieces hurled their projectiles screaming into The Rock's gun positions and galleries and shelters. His mortars and howitzers looped great shells high in the air. With all his observation points on surrounding shores, the Jap could not miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE PHILIPPINES: Ghostly Garrison | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Tortilla Flat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a picaresque tale of life among squalid California paisanos, has had an odd history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

After Author Steinbeck had acquired success and a bank account,† he brooded over his wayward Flat, offered $10,000 to remove it from the Hollywood market. This virtually unheard-of maneuver produced its almost inevitable result: Flat became a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Garland shared honors with speedster Frank Coolidge, who collected 13 points by virtue of his 10-second winning performance in the 100, a 22 flat clocking in the 220 to take that event equally handily, and a 21 foot leap to gather in a second place in the broad jump...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: YARDLING TRACK TEAM THRASHES YALE 89-46 | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

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