Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve deafening minutes he stood on a table before the roaring crowd. When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving...
Tucked quietly away on page 6 of the New York Times one day last week, marked by a tiny headline, was a flat denial of some news which had rated front-page banners in practically every paper in the U. S. the week before. The great "invasion attempt"-in which there were supposed to have been anywhere from 40,000 to 200,000 German casualties -had been made up out of whole cloth...
Never has Jesus been so potent in the affairs of men as in the past 14 decades. The years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion...
John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was not padding through the Kentucky forest or slinking about bird-abundant Feliciana Parish, he was flat-boating on the Mississippi and Ohio, exploring Florida's St. Johns River or sailing along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. In Labrador he hunted seals, in the Dakotas buffalo. He traveled up the Big Muddy to the Rocky Mountains. Everywhere he painted birds magnificently, sometimes painted animals almost as well...
...across a remark the other day in the "Pro Musica" column of the Radcliffe News which seemed to me typical of a fairly widespread misconception about Mozart. The writer of "Pro Musica" discussed at some length the E-flat Symphony, and then went on to say: ". . . where a Mozart rises above his environment and ignores, a Berlioz would have sought to picture it in its most sordid details. It is a never-ending tribute, we feel, to the greatness of Mozart that he could continue composition of 'happy' music even when he himself was most 'unhappy.'" Such a statement...