Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gullies in its own way. Powered by a 250-h.p. Guiber-son Diesel engine, it has impressive speed -better than 80 m.p.h. on smooth highways-is fast and nimble over rough ground. It mounts two .50-caliber machine guns and a slim-nosed, long-barreled 75 in its flat turret...
...Editors' bonuses sometimes amount to several times their salary. All employes get free dental cleaning, free medical examination, cut-rate medical services, may even buy life insurance through the Tribune, or borrow money for homes from its own savings and loan company funds. Tribune newlyweds receive gifts of flat silver. And once a year the Colonel, in cutaway, receives all Tribune employes (3,000) in the main lobby, treats them to coffee and sandwiches. Paternalism on the Tribune, administered with feudal directness by the Colonel himself, has had potent influence on his staff...
Well aware that milers do not reach their peak until they are 25 (Cunningham ran his 4:07.4 when he was 28), track experts predict that up-&-coming MacMitchell may some day run a mile in four minutes flat...
...sharp austerity of cliff and pyramid: it is called 'the witness of God.' " Author West and her friends arrived at the Sheep's Field by car. "When we got out we were so near the rock that we could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly a colour...
Pedalling furiously, and panting desperately, John Potter '45 puffed across the finish line first to win the annual Harvard-Wellesley bicycle race yesterday morning in 36 minutes flat. He was greeted by approximately 30 cheering maidens of the institution on Lake Waban, and was presented with a bike travelling kit for his pains...