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Word: smoothed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray's business is up 50% to 100% (most in defense cities), has actually risen 300%...in Los Angeles. There 600 pupils pay $11,000 each month to learn the rumba, smooth swing, jitterbugging or "New Yorker" (West Coast name for the Lindy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murray in a Hurry | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Five of the Houses announced last night that they would open their dining-room doors for lunch at 12:00 o'clock on Saturdays when there are football games "to smooth out crowded conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Houses Open Dining Halls At 12:00 Today to Avoid Rush | 10/3/1942 | See Source »

...carpeted staircase of the Seaman's Club at Archangel was pounded smooth by feet from many lands. Cheerful, blue-bloused, smoking, joking, swearing lads greeted each other in universal monosyllables, sang the songs of home, danced with Russian girls. War, even in Russia, had its interludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: United Men | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...York's smooth-striding Yankees: the American League pennant, for the sixth time in seven years; after leading the league since the first week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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