Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a thankful father and mother met Axel on a Jersey City pier and took him home to their modest flat. Axel greeted callers by bowing stiffly from the waist. What amazed Axel was the amount of butter on his mother's table. What amazed his mother was the way, when she started to turn on the lights, little Axel shouted to her to wait, then rushed to the windows and pulled down the shades...
...goal-line stand, the stadium suddenly shook with a thunderous roar. With his teammates giving an incredible display of downfield blocking, Stanford's Pete Kmetovic, running back Nebraska's punt, scooted over the Nebraska goal line in a 40-yd. zigzag sprint-with all of the Cornhuskers flat on their faces behind him. The Nebraskans failed to score again. So the Indians stuck another feather in their war bonnets. Score...
...Trainor and Doug Pirnie, who ran in last year's meet and ran ten flat in the 100 yard dash against Yale, are entered in the 50-yard sprint. Don MacKinnon, who took fourth last year, and Tom Goethals, who sprinted in the 1940 contest will attempt the high hurdles...
...whole film was an incomparably bad cinematic post card to the wide world. Anti-tank guns fired in batteries-perhaps for the camera. Howitzers fired in flat trajectory-perhaps for the same reason. Young men signed up for the Communist Party just before going into battle -without enthusiasm, obviously for the camera. The only naval units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn...
...Washington it was known that the request for bases, put through a neutral agency, had been turned down flat...