Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel background score performed by a 50-piece symphony orchestra, to some Grade-A Negro choraling of Short'nin' Bread and Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, and to some very solid jive. The result is a colorful, intriguing, three-dimensional cartoon whose smooth animation is the result of a considerable and clever technique...
There are several things that can be done to shape this vague, indefinite assembly of individuals and small groups into a smooth-running organization. It could be placed in direct connection with Air Raid Wardens, the Fire-Fighters and the spotters, all responsible to the Precinct Warden. The First Aid groups in the Houses should be coordinated, and should meet as soon as possible with Dr. Bok or some representative of the medical department. The various units should receive equipment and definite, uniform instructions...
With one eye on Saturday's contest with Yale, Coach Earl Brown will probably shuffle his players around more than usual tonight in an effort to get the right combination for the Elis. It will be his last chance to smooth out flaws in the Crimson machine...
...reasons for this lag between the liberal training and the social demand can be found in the historical development of American education. The great outcry for a popularization of this training that could open up a smooth road to advancement gave rise to thousands of new colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more...
...result is the Air Force which so far has had its way in the southwest Pacific. It is not the Air Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving them cleanly home. In Malaya this Air Force confused and broke the British, made their calm confidence look like childish complacency...