Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look at us today, intolerably aged, Let us speak of the young men whose pictures you may see on the chapel walls--for they were and are and always will be kids like yourselves, strong. We knew them as you know your roommates and teammates--bright-eyed and smooth-checked and better perhaps, for they were our companions-in-arms in the camps and] the ships and on the roads leading to the flickering horizon in the east, where the sky jumped in the night and there was a noise like the far-off slamming of doors. We knew what...
...year, "Break Up the Yankees" has been baseball's war cry. Too smart, too smooth, too powerful, the "greatest machine in the history of baseball" made other clubs in the American League look like Model Ts racing a Miller Special. Last week the question might have been raised: Is New York still in the league?*The mighty Yankees, odds-on favorites to win their league pennant for the fifth year in a row, chugged along in last place-with only seven victories in 21 games. They had not broken up, but they had, at least temporarily, broken down...
...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from...
Like the characters in the "Ascent of F-6," the Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream...
...Varsity event, of course, was Harvard's right from the beginning. Leaving the stakeboats with a slow racing start, the smooth-rowing eight eased into the lead and kept drawing away from the Tech and Syracuse boats which were fighting for second place...