Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery...
Mozart's Quartet in B Flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $6) - This is called the "Hunting Quartet" because a theme in the first movement resembles a hunter's horn. The Adagio, tranquil and in no way suggestive of the skelter of the field, is played by the Leners with expert tenderness...
...bettered by one-sixteenth inch the old record set by Reb Russell of Lynn Classical in 1924 when he leaped five feet 10 1-2 inches. Al Morin, of David Prouty, set a new meet record in the 100-yard dash when he ran the distance in 10 seconds flat. He also won the running broad jump in his class making a leap of 21 feet...
Speed Record. Seasoned diplomats called the 32 hours flat in which the Treaty, was rushed on to paper at London by Chairman Dwight Whitney Morrow of the drafting committee "easily a record...
...rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered over toward the bank, looking for shelter. The water was white all the way to Corney Reach, at the second bend...