Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baldwin upheld his raggedly passing team with a smooth performance at attack, but little could be done to with-stand the push of the fast Green and White team...
...story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father, a sea captain, died when he was three; that he went to Bowdoin, lived in seclusion after graduation, and published his first stories anonymously. This version of his life has been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal...
...part, Mark Van Doren's new biography of Hawthorne is no exception. When it deals with Hawthorne's life, it follows all the smooth old academic stereotypes. Whenever it touches on Hawthorne's writing, however, the book picks up interest at once. Of The Wives of the Dead, one of the most poignant stories in the English language, he says: "No reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal...
...expected, the high-stroking Terriers enjoyed an early lead, but by the end of the first eighth-mile Harvard was in command and Tech was a close second. With stroke Bill Curwen holding a 31 1/2 beat, the smooth Crimson shall had a half-length lead on MIT and began to open water on BY, which had faded fast to third...
Puritan Mel Zurier and Deacon Ed Smith turned in smooth pitching jobs, Zurier allowing three hits and Smith four. But the Winthrop players hit hard when they hit, and they made only three errors to the losers' five...