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Word: smooth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the afternoon a smooth Adams House aggregation whipped a slow-moving Dudley squad 24 to 11, in a game that was characterized by lengthy midcourt heaves in the general direction of the Gold Coast backboard. Adams proved itself a strong defensive squad, but dangerously weak in capitalizing on scoring opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co. 3 Zeroes in on Bellboy Hoop; Adams Tops Dudley | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Airmen Going Up | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Lynn Baker's costumes and David Pike's settings showed considerable taste and imagination in utilizing somewhat limited materials, and the physical production was, in general, smooth and workmanlike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 12/7/1945 | See Source »

...with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rats & the Katz | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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