Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those horses must pull together. We cannot hope to save this democracy of ours any other way. If you will charge me with that responsibility I will see to it that the pull is strong and is smooth." Next night, at Madison, Wis., his hearers were mostly students: an intelligent, restless, heckling, cheering audience. Willkie, apparently loving it, thrust-&-parried the hecklers, gradually rose to an oratorical form that astounded the correspondents, who were only now discovering that Willkie doesn't like to talk, he likes to argue. A hostile audience is meat-&-drink to him. It was Willkie...
...Smooth Bill Benton who became a millionaire in advertising (Benton & Bowles) before he was 40 and retired to become vice president of Chicago University...
...Team Northwestern Syracuse 13-0 Go you Northwestern Bowdoin Wesleyan 13-7 Will win this one St. Mary's California 14-7 Bears still groggy Michigan Michigan State 20-7 Hail to the victors valiant Ohio State Purdue 26-13 A track meet Cornell Colgate 13-0 Ithacans too smooth U. C. L. A. Santa Clara 10-7 Bronco busters
...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...
...talent for smooth collaboration that Thomas has evidenced in his radio work has distinguished him throughout his career. Back in 1916, when he first decided to make lecturing his career after a spell as newshawk and instructor in English at Princeton, he was helped along by Dale Carnegie, who even then was busy making friends & influencing people. After being sent to Europe on a quasi-official Government mission to gather material for a propaganda talk, he came back to the U. S. in 1919 with the necessary facts & photographs for a series of four shows. Once again Friend Carnegie...