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Word: smoothed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style is smooth and easy, characters are definitely drawn and not difficult to recognise. Perhaps the book's highest virtue is the conversation. There is nothing profound or intellectual about it, but it does ring true and sound natural...

Author: By David LANIER ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

With the financial road made smooth for the eastward anabasis, the Board of Trustees of the college raised a forbidding three fingers. Unwillingness of the authorities to allow the bandsmen to miss four days of classes cancelled the Pullman reservations, and the only music in the Stadium will be partisan to the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACADEMIC BONDS KEEP PURDUE BAND AT HOME | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...combination preparatory and high school stars which composes the present first string material has a lot of work ahead of it to become a smooth functioning machine before the game with Andover on October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY ANNOUNCES FIRST CUT IN FRESHMAN SQUAD | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

Courteous centaurs again pranced out upon the smooth surface of In- ternational Field, Meadow Brook Club, Long Island. Thousands clamored in the light blue grandstands. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Meadow Brook | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...hour, motorists coaxed, kicked, whistled, roared, cursed, stroked. The two would not budge. At last three men who were friends of the cows came by. They-the chief of police, the supervisor of the school, the principal of the school-per- suaded the comfortable cows to leave the smooth, warm surface of their roadbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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