Word: smoothed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Germany some advantage in arms-making efficiency throughout World War I, when they were unknown to the Allies. In 1926 Krupp began to assist the American development of hard-cemented carbides, and these materials are now playing a major part in the U.S. rearmament program, trimming rough castings into smooth-cheeked gun barrels and shell cases...
...itself is nine feet high and 35 feet long. The major portion is constructed of stone, but a concrete facing gives the dam a smooth surface. When the students left the project at the end of the summer, the concrete facing was not quite finished, but is being completed by local workmen...
Colman's life with Anna Lee is pure nonsense, but perfectly harmless and done in the usual smooth Colman manner. Ronald and Anna make a charming couple, and your heart is with Ronald in his efforts to keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets...
...National League it was still a race, with the Dodgers and Cardinals neck & neck. But in the American League, New York's smooth-striding Yankees, though 20 games away from the wire, clinched the pennant for the fifth time in six years, began to sell tickets for next month's World Series to be played in New York City and either St. Louis or Brooklyn, starting...
...first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...