Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Greenleaf and Rudolph, with the crowd banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf...
Francesci floating head down in air-filled diving suits on the surface, their bronze head chambers smashed flat...
Congress was last week asked to pass a measure allowing corporations to deduct from their income tax all sums which they give for charitable, social-welfare or unemployment-relief purposes. Individuals already have this exemption. Corporations heretofore have been forbidden it. They pay a flat 12% income tax, whereas individuals pay up to 25%. If Congress passes the bill, a likely thing, it will be the greatest boost organized charity has received for a long time. For, although Chairman Hawley of the House Ways & Means Committee introduced the resolution to Congress, the push to enactment really began with James Herbert...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
...sparkplug quarterback, was stopped in his little tracks every time he hit the line. Harvard could not gain with a running game either, but Barry Wood's punts were longer than Booth's and Captain Ben Ticknor made decisive tackles. Twice Wood dropped back and sent long flat passes to Huguley for the scores that won the game. Harvard 13, Yale...