Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...
They didn't have far to go. Scrambling up the jagged side of the plateau to get a look at the countryside, the Pan Am engineers were astonished to find a surface so flat that little more than smoothing and a bit of leveling were needed. Above the malaria level, the airport surface is so hard that a spike can scarcely be driven into it. As yet, the engineers have found no nearby water supply. After building a road up the steep face of the plateau, Pan Am hired 380 natives (all who could be found and persuaded...
...guests will be youngsters of CCC, scheduled to sail this week from Seattle on the Army transport Leonard Wood, with a detachment of Army engineers and technicians of the U. S. Forest Service. Their assignment: to clear and drain an Air Corps flying field on the swampy, flat west arm of Annette Island's reservation...
...this great chapter, Mann makes a flat denial of those stream-of-consciousness subtleties whereby James Joyce put to shame all "psychological" fiction before and since Ulysses. Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings...
...took the full weight of this evidence to persuade gun-shy businessmen that business really was better. There were still two wide rivers to cross. Their pet barometer, the stockmarket, was still flat on its back, had scarcely twitched since its recovery from the Blitzkrieg Collapse (TIME, June 3). And businessmen could not down the fear that taxes would rise faster than profits, convert the Defense Boom to a profitless prosperity...