Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five records of the vintage of 1926. The intense Armstrong trumpet overcomes any little obstacles of poor recording to show his earlier style of playing to advantage, though most of the numbers sound quite dated. Among the single records the best is the great Red Norvo "Blues in E Flat," one of the greatest improvised performances ever made by a pickup band of colored and white musicians. Bunny Berrigan, Teddy Wilson, Chu Berry, and Johnny Mince, late of Tommy Dorsey, combine their talents to produce one of the most satisfying jazz records of the past ten years . . . George Frazier...
Amadeo of Aosta stooped, laid the bare palm of his hand flat on the soil of the Empire which was no longer his to rule, stood again, and walked quickly down to the British staff car waiting...
...time it was light, fighting was well under way. The German aims were about as simple as an attacker could desire: seize as much as possible of the road along the coastal plane, seize the three main airdromes and all subsidiary flat fields. The main attack was on Malemi Airfield; those to the east were feints...
Trouble on a Flat Car. One bill granted amnesty to political offenders. Congress overrode President Aguirre's veto, and back to Chile went one firebrand whom Don Tinto would have loved to keep in exile: onetime President Ibañez, who made his return in state, sitting in his automobile on a flat car of a freight train. On his way back was another: General Ariosto Herrera, leader of the Movimiento Nadonalista, a Nazified party which made another unsuccessful Putsch...
...unhappy situation of a reduced income had to be faced; no one has denied that. What was denied, first by the Teachers' Union, then by the Student Union, and finally by the Student Council, was that a flat ten per cent budget cut should be slammed down the throat of every Department in the University, with only the pious admonition to "injure educational standards as little as possible." According to the report, the tutorial system is being rapidly de-emphasied by the effects of the cut, and a Harvard education may become a watery sort of thing, at least...