Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiasts, both scientists and crackpots, for generations. Their basic theory is fairly simple. If a projectile is fired horizontally from a high mountain, it falls toward the earth in a curve. The greater the projectile's speed, the flatter the-curve of its fall. When the curve gets flat enough, it is a circle matching the curve of the earth's surface. Thus (but for air friction), the projectile might continue forever, round & round the earth. It would still be falling, but the surface of the earth would recede exactly as fast as the fall of the projectile...
...hokum this. In early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
Hindemith: Quartet in E Flat (the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Yale's Composer-Professor Paul Hindemith wrote this heavy quartet in 1943. Dreary in its slow movements, it even has a note of gloom in its bright ones. Performance and recording: good...
...Hollywood, NBC's Al Jolson said he was getting out in May, complained: "I don't like going on the air and doing the show direct. Frankly, I don't know music and I can go flat. I'd like to do radio just like pictures-leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor...
...Lady Appleton, dark brown hair and handsome, runs her Kensington flat singlehanded. She has traveled widely with her husband within the last three years. 'I always seem to be packing,' she said, 'and I hope this will be the last occasion...