Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME obtained its account of the V incident from a reliable correspondent and later received confirmation from two other sources. Senator Wheeler must know, but TIME cannot account for the flat contradiction...
...President moved slowly into the House of Representatives. In the packed, still chamber stood the men & women of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, all of the U.S. Government under one skylight roof. Below the great flat-hung Stars & Stripes stood Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn. The heavy applause lingered, gradually began to break into cheers and rebel yells. Speaker Rayburn gave one smash of his heavy gavel, introduced the President in one sentence...
...approaches to Moscow make a first-class military cemetery. The land is mostly flat, some of it gently rolling. To the northwest there are numerous swamps, now partly frozen. To the north there are great, patchy forests, which even in winter are good cover because they consist mostly of pine and spruce. All around is a net work of rivers-Volga, Moskva, Oka, Sherna, Protva, Ugra, Ruza, Yauza-which are now mostly frozen...
Promoter of this year's tour is Yaleman ('36) Alexis Thompson, heir to a $5,000,000 steel fortune. To professional tennis he has brought a sound innovation. In addition to a flat guarantee, each of the four players will be paid according to his performance. The player winning the most matches will get 36% of the players' share of the gate receipts. The second ranking player will get 28%; the third, 21%; the fourth, 15%. "The No. 1 player should earn around $40,000," says Angel Thompson, "the No. 4 player around
Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...