Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late start in out-of-door practices, and is not as well oriented as some of its opponents. And if lack of practice is not too big a handicap, a week of constant travel, most of it by bus, will not be much of an aid to smooth ball-playing either...
...smooth. Roughest point: at the space reserved for Eire's delegation, a conference flunky put a card marked Irlande du Nord. The indignant Irish delegate, Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, suspected a British plot. The head usher hastily repaired this gaffe by sending for scissors, cutting off the last two words...
...with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been winning it for years, by smooth salesmanship, a rising reputation for deftly mixing traditional and unorthodox designs, and a knack for "dollar-stretching...
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet but whose experience of it has been soured by a frigid, all too high-minded wife, O'Connor redeems the character from mere ridiculousness by noting that "he knew he could never be like any other sensible man, but would keep on to the day he died, pining...
Motormaker Henry Kaiser and Moneyman Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. were a smooth-working financial team. The two friends had floated two issues of Kaiser-Frazer stock, and when K-F needed steel, Eaton had set up a steel company to supply some of it. When K-F decided to float a third stock issue to raise capital for expansion (TIME, Feb. 16), it was Otis & Co. which headed the underwriting syndicate. Last week, Friend Cyrus performed another service for Friend Henry. He gave him a dazzling lesson in high finance that broke...