Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triple Decker. Paris shows "open" on three successive nights. The first night is a dress-and dressmakers'-rehearsal. The invited audience is made up of important couturiers, stage designers, technicians, anyone who has contributed a necklace or a knickknack.* The performance is halted to smooth out wrinkles in the costumes, or (often at the most exciting moments) to take publicity shots...
This year's games, being against teams in the collegiate class, should give the Crimson nine a chance to better its records of the past few years, when the experienced and smooth military squads often hit the Stahlment hard and long...
Rudely upsetting pre-season form, Dunster's smooth functioning quintet downed NROTC Company One Tuesday and Wednesday by 32 to 25, and 32 to 30 scores, in the final and conclusive games of their best two-out-of-three intramural basketball playoffs...
...exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, 2,500 Londoners a day plunked down a shilling each. They got their shilling's worth. Mostly lent by private collectors-including 17 19th-Century paintings from King George's collection-the exhibition covered Greek art from an onion-smooth, onion-shaped head, carved about 3000 B.C., to a painting of Greek resistance fighters of World War II. The Royal Academy show did not compare with the Elgin marbles in the British Museum, but it seemed a wonderful enough world of happy, half-naked, carefree athletes to give most visitors...
Rising to the challenge of a smooth-playing and vastly improved Chelsea Naval Hospital squad, the Varsity quintet fought hard to gain its eighteenth victory of the season at the Indoor Athletic Building Tuesday evening. The final score of 77 to 54 belies the closeness that marked the first three quarters of one of the best-played games of the year...