Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high altitudes, can reach compressibility in ordinary level flight. The pilot opens the throttle. The speed picks up as the magic jet engine shoves harder. It is as smooth as oil, so nearly vibrationless that sometimes a special gadget is installed to tap on the instrument board and keep the plane's instruments from sticking...
...heir to all civilization and all smooth-running modern gadgets, the 20th Century citizen, goes to strange places in pursuit of happiness and self-improvement. Every year he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on fortune tellers, medical quacks, "lovelorn experts" of press and radio, palmists, mail-order muscle builders, numerologists, diet faddists, nerve pills, perfumed unguents...
Thirty grass courts, already billiard-table smooth, were being given a last expert roll. Out came the gaily striped awnings and umbrellas; up went the refreshment tent (favorite drinks: rum & Tom Collins). A fuzzy-cheeked crew of ball boys soaked up lectures on arm-folding and court behavior. All that was needed to bring in the crowd: the arrival of the 1946 crop of sun-browned, touring tennis stars...
...Smooth-talking Bill Pardridge hopes to see 10,000 subscribers before the year is out, will now take ads (the first issue was adless). Barred from advertising: aviation companies. Reason: to head off any talk that Air Affairs has an ax to grind. But every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees...
...first seen at work, Vidocq is just an unusually smooth garter-snatcher (his quarry: Carole Landis). But as he matures, he does a dowager (Alma Kruger) out of every jewel she has, without diminishing her regard for him. He also inspires high regard in her lovely granddaughter (Signe Hasso), and decides that as a detective, recovering the lost jewels by brilliant deduction, he can make his way in the world even better...