Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago the Corporation voted a flat and unanimous "no" to the proposal of paid-for sportscasting of Vern Struck's fake spinners. Its argument was the usual fear of "commercialization." But the sale of radio rights is not the type of "commercialization" to which there can be logical protest. Purchase of players is not wanted and is quite distinct from the sale of the entertainment they provide. The Corporation's old argument ignores the fact that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive...
...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...
...Masses are shrieking "sabotage," but for the first time since "Ecstasy" Lamarr makes l'amour and makes it right. Don't misunderstand--Hays hasn't let everything go and Hedy doesn't get negligent with her negligee again. Rather, she has finally found a part where her flat, undramatic voice isn't out of place. Cast as an old-fashioned Communist who believes the executions should be stopped while there still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident for his predecessor. The line...
Best times of the evening went to Powers with a 54 flat effort in the century and to Springfield's Art Beck with a 24.5 triumph...
Small Tom Sullivan and Sophomore Bill Crawford, the latter only swimming for his second year, were responsible for the Princeton relay triumph. Leadoff man Sullivan did about 54 flat and picked up a yard and a half on Tom Shrewsbury, and John Clark tacked on another yard to this margin against Lonnie Stowell. Frannie Powers wiped out all of the deficit against Ned Parke and gave Art Bosworth a lead of about one foot, but the tired Bosworth was unable to keep up with Crawford--he was close to 53 flat...