Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bookmakers did not agree. The smooth-running Yankee machine may hit on all cylinders after four weeks of coasting; while the high-strung Dodgers, after a neck & neck race with the St. Louis Cardinals since the first week of the season-a race during which the Dodgers were in and out of the lead ten times-may be on the verge of collapse. So bookies last week quoted odds of 2-to-i on the Yankees to win the World Series for the fifth time in six years...
...show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...
...smooth in the assembly of the first building, which Dr. Houser called "quite Darwinian, almost protozeau in its concept." But regardless of bad guesses on this side of the water, ingenuity prevailed...
Chief result of the contest was the discovery that individual skills of the undergraduates were highly developed for this early point in the season but that smooth teamwork and coordination was completely lacking. Coach Jim MacDonald attributed this to the fact that last week, the first of practice, was spent chiefly in conditioning drills which did little to develop any cooperation among the players...
Worst prize for the issue, however, goes to Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. for his stodgy, humorless praises of Harvard in "An Appreciation of Four Years." One almost prefers the Progressive's vituperations to the smooth phrases flowing from the pen of Life's "typical Harvard...