Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk, Nock will set out on one of his famous peripatetic lectures up and down the narrow stage extending across the room. On this journey he demonstrates his acrobatic agility by paddling the arms through the air. Tradition likes to remember the time over-exuberance ended him up flat on the floor. The wandering begins to assume the likeness of a relay-race; a favorite heating pipe near the window must be tagged before the return to the desk. But the hike may be interrupted by a noisy sneezing attack requiring a five to ten minute clean up job, accompanied...
...Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know but what he's right, If he'd inspect my pick and shovel, He'd always...
Last week more than 300 bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers, Pennsylvania scholars and historians, guests from as far away as Manhattan thronged the Landis farm to attend the formal opening of the Landis Valley Museum. Awed neighbors in flat hats and black bonnets greeted each other in Pennsylvania Dutch ("Wie bist du Heit?"-"How are you today...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major (Saxonian State Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm; Victor; 18 sides in two volumes; $10). Devout, naive-he gratefully tipped Conductor Hans Richter one thaler (71?) after the first performance of his fourth symphony-Composer Anton Bruckner wrote some of the most prolix symphonies in history. Dresden's orchestra, one of Europe's finest, gives Bruckner's long melodies a fine recording, the only one now available...
...Freshman Commons food costs $8.50 a week, and the chief complaint of the Tiger Kittens, ironically enough, is that they are rushed through their meals in "eight minutes flat as a maximum...