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Word: smoothed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio's Diesel-smooth Republican machine is reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES: Governors | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Coach Snavely, 46-year-old minister's son who never swears nor smiles on a football field, has a simple formula for winning games: "Leave nothing to chance." Cornell's remarkable timing, brilliant deception and smooth execution of assignments are the result of intelligence but also of drill. With the meticulousness of a scientist, Snavely has moving pictures taken of every move his players make. He spends the first three days of each week poring over slow-motion pictures of the previous Saturday's game, sends his players long letters analyzing every play, pointing out each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Red | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...hundred fifty-two years ago America elected its first President. But many years before that, in 1638, Harvard College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTES | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...After a smooth endorsement of the stronger of two Delaware Democratic tickets, Shepherd Roosevelt left the sheep, went after the Republican wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: God Willing | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Composer Carpenter's new symphony was smooth and well-dressed as Composer Carpenter himself. Orchestra Hall rang with polite applause; politely Composer Carpenter took three curtain calls. Critics, praising its tuneful themes, its crystal-clear orchestration, were polite too, found it one of the most gentlemanly of symphonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peaceful Music | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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