Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although times were kept strictly confidential, Captain Bob Houghton and Fred Phinney looked particularly impressive in leading their respective heats in the three-quarter mile trails, while Bill Palson loped his eight laps in effortless style to finish with a less impressive time. To redeem himself, the smooth-striding star tore through a furious quarter-mile a few minutes later...
...With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today, and where last week he let Rex and Ben Webster loose, so today...
...trackless tank rides on eight huge wheels, independently sprung so that each can crawl over stumps and gullies in its own way. Powered by a 250-h.p. Guiber-son Diesel engine, it has impressive speed -better than 80 m.p.h. on smooth highways-is fast and nimble over rough ground. It mounts two .50-caliber machine guns and a slim-nosed, long-barreled 75 in its flat turret...
...Donald Gordon was the Dominion's youngest (19) bank inspector six years later. In 1935 Graham Towers, Governor of the new Bank of Canada, picked him as its secretary; he became deputy governor at 37. Little known then outside banking circles, he set up the bank's smooth-working foreign-exchange control system, became a powerful figure in Canada's wartime economic councils...
...avoided reporters like the plague both in Britain and the U.S. Evangelist Buchman, who is now trying to convert Maine to MRA, last week dodged correspondents everywhere he went. MRA has had little luck in Maine since its advent there last June. The general Down East reaction to its smooth, eupeptic preachers: "What's the catch...