Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane plunged into the cloud, Schaefer radioed back to Dr. Langmuir that he was about to begin. Then he carefully scattered six pounds of dry-ice pellets through the cloud in a belt three miles long. In two minutes flat the poisoned cloud was writhing with agonies so enormous that Dr. Langmuir could see them in faraway Schenectady...
Retailers in general were even more cautious, as more consumers balked at high prices. Department stores blossomed with unseasonable markdowns. Adam Hat Stores, Inc. slashed $10, $12.50 and $15 models to a flat...
...they had for 340 years, the Yeomen of the Guard, in white Elizabethan ruffs, flat hats with rosettes, and red-&-gold uniforms, poked tasseled halberds into corners of Westminster cellars, in the traditional "search" for conspiratorial descendants of Catholic Plotter Guy Fawkes...
Mozart: Concerto In E Flat Major for two pianos and orchestra (Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Mozart composed this bright piece for his two-piano concerts with Josepha Aurnhammer (of whom he wrote: "The young lady is a fright but plays enchantingly"). Performance: excellent...
Brahms: Second Sonata in E Flat for Clarinet and Piano (Benny Goodman and Nadia Reisenberg; Columbia, 6 sides). Brahms at his banal worst; Goodman at his technical best...