Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his shore positions he opened up with 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns. The big projectiles hit Corregidor with the clatter of runaway freights, shot up great geysers of dirt and stone. Corregidor pounded back, between times manned its AA, guns against almost constant attack by flat and dive-bombers...
Leaving five other House crews in their wake, Winthrop and Eliot won their opening heats of the season yesterday afternoon, turning in times of 5:57 and six minutes flat respectively. The only House that did not participate was Adams, which was forced to default because of a leg injury to one of its members...
President Roosevelt, who wanted a new and better name for the war, could take his pick of suggestions. Letters fluttered into the White House by thousands. Names ranged from flat pomposities like "The Freeman's War" to flat gags like "JIG War" (Japan, Italy, Germany-and their jig will be up soon...
...babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...
Home-brew has a reputation for turning flat, and the acceleration scheme cooked up by the Harvard Military Science Department is no exception. The program envisioned for ROTC men is more inflexible than necessary. It requires that every student in Mil Sci I and II, without exception, attend twelve weeks of Summer School and take half of Mil Sci II or III, respectively. This schedule is not a University or a War Department policy; it is the brain child solely of the Mil Sci Department. Washington has directed each local unit to arrange its program to fit the war-time...