Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University basketball team which will face Boston University in Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock in the first clash of the season is small in size, but fast and shifty. B. U. will probably have a considerable advantage over the Crimson in height but the Harvard team looks smooth and aggressive with a great deal of speed...
...system of apprenticeships in the art of teaching, recently inaugurated by the Graduate School of Education, provides a means by which the student of teaching may smooth off the rough edges of his technique by actual experience in conducting classes, both in the public high schools and in private schools in the vicinity of Cambridge. Such an opportunity can be of great benefit to prospective teachers in that it gives an opportunity to try out new teaching methods and to become accustomed to dealing with class work in fact rather than in theory...
...Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into the plunking monotony of mandolins, but the Aguilars make music marvelous for smooth, glowing patterns...
...huskers' hands worked like shuttles in two motions?up and down. They tore the ears off the stalks, twisting the instruments on their gloves so as to lay bare the smooth corn kernels. With their free hands they took hold of the bare ears, twisted and snapped off the rest of the husks, threw the ears into the wagons...
Singing came into line naturally then; Robeson's voice had always been splendidly full and smooth, contributing immeasurably to the power of his speaking performances. In 1925, with Negro Pianist Lawrence Brown, he gave his first recital of spirituals-another success. Soon after he went abroad...