Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flash Test. To help camera users eliminate poor pictures caused by faulty flashbulb connections, Westinghouse brought out a bulb to test synchronizers on cameras, the first such simple testing device. The bulb fits in either smooth-surface or threaded sockets. Price...
...next, and apathetic to the whole thing next morning. Playwright Miller has carefully appraised his theme for what it is worth as theater. He has decided just how much humor may prove of use; has decided, less soundly, just how much romance; and has got his play a nice smooth production. He is more shrewd than gifted; and not the first playwright who, while dramatizing the cleavage between ethics and economics on the stage, has managed to combine them at the work table...
...Mick" Carney's fleet, the warships of four nations, was bobbing in Naples harbor after a week of brisk maneuvers during which former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...Smooth Finish...
...N.A.M. has been able to attract several well-informed and smooth writers to its columns. Dr. Herold C. Hunt, general superintendent of Chicago's public schools has written an incisive account of the crisis in public school education. Two General Electric executives are the authors of another excellent article which debunks the roseate notion of automobiles, railroad trains, and electric light bulbs running perpetually on a thimble-full of plutonium. Although these topics have been discussed again and again, U.S.A.'s comment on them is authoritative and interesting...