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Word: smoothed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going to ask you. Ah, poor darling, marriage is one thing and love's another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amour Amok | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Smooth aggressive play and improved teamwork added up to a 10 to 2 victory for the Varsity lacrosse team over a thoroughly outclassed squad from New Hampshire last Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field. Weak in material and teamplay, the New Hampshire team showed a 7 to 0 deficit at the half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Bows to Crimson In Lacrosse Tilt | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...slope of the great granite dome of Malindizimu, the Queen found the going too heavy for her smooth-soled shoes. Princess Elizabeth promptly offered the Queen her low-heeled footgear; the Princess continued the ascent in stocking feet (Nylons, size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tot Siens | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Howie Hall's Varsity lightweights, runaway victors in their race-last week, will go into this contest with their boating unchanged, as will the smooth-rowing Freshman shell. Both of these boats showed nice form in taking their opening races last week

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Meets Penn, Crew Rows at Annapolis To Keynote Crimson Sports Action on 15 Fronts Today | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...integral part of the required General Education courses the Committee hopes to make all instructors style-conscious and extend the realm of intelligible writing beyond the Freshman level. Since such a change would be made only with difficulty, a period of experimentation on a small scale is needed to smooth the way for later conversion when the time comes to tell incoming Freshmen that six of the sixteen courses required for a degree must be in the field of General Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Undying Prose | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

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