Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...techniques are still varied and far from smooth. Some telecommercials are as outdated as the nickelodeon's between reel slides: static, leering mink-coat models or unwinking concentration on a bar of soap. Some are working along promising lines: most admen admire Lucky Strike's cartoons and its battalion of animated, marching cigarettes...
Barbara Ann takes a perfectionist's delight in tracing threes (bunnies' ears, she calls them) and double-three-change-double-threes on the ice. Even ice-when it's smooth-delights her. "I suppose most people think of ice as cold and artificial. But to me it's warm. It isn't artificial, really-it's alive...
...have brought down destruction on his head by jealousy. It is not so. Othello's trouble is with his head not his heart, for he means well but has not the ability to choose". In the same manner the speaker discredited the popular impression of Iago as a smooth sly man by pointing out the absolute trust which was placed on him by Othello, and the honesty with which the author characterized him in the play. Continuing the story, Professor Kittredge laid stress on the pathetic quality of the scene between Othello and his condemned wife...
...greatest and most farseeing eye opened for the first time this week-and saw nothing new. The great 200-in. telescope at Mt. Palomar, weighing 500 tons, swung as smooth as silk on its massive bearings. The astronomers, deliberately avoiding objects of great interest, pointed it at arbitrary spots in the sky, just trying it out. The telescope, they explained, needed a good bit of delicate adjustment before it was ready to take worthwhile pictures...
...dining halls, Radcliffe women with copious lecture notes are replacing the smooth-shanked fillies from Northampton. In Stillman Infirmary, University pill-rollers are treating three students for overdosage of Benzerdrine...