Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be to stop the Eagles from scoring a lot. They have a very fast team which averages two inches of height more than the Crimson. This is probably the best B.C. team in recent years, Shepard said, since it now has a skyscraper center to complement its perennially smooth squad...
...either side of the stripped-down fuselage of a Taylor Cub, he fastened stubby wings curved into a smooth semicircle -the bottom halves of two 6-ft.-wide Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the trailing edge. If his calculations were correct, when the spinning props sucked air through the U-shaped channels, Custer's plane would fly-like that West Virginia barn roof a quarter-century before...
...gift idea that just seems to fit every personality. BIGELOW, KENNARD AND COMPANY, at 384 Boylston Street in Boston, is featuring such a gift. The table-lighter and keychains above are made of clear lucite, with miniature sea horses, sea plants, and shells frozen in position. The workmanship is smooth, delicate, and intriguing. The lighter is sold for $12.50, while the keychains are $2.00 apiece...
...lumbering, smooth-pated, flabby-jowled prototype of the political boss, McHale for years has made big fees handling cases involving the Government. He was a stockholder, director and counsel for the Empire Ordnance Corp., one of the most investigated and most criticized munitions companies of World War II. In 1941 Missouri's Senator Harry Truman denounced Empire's efforts to buy political influence in Washington as "anything but ethical...
...entitled France Aroused. Gobbets of clay and drops of sweat impacted into a hot mulch in his bottomless black beard. "Why don't you shave it off?" tittered his model, who was posing coolly without a stitch. Davidson flew out to the barber, soon emerged as smooth as Tweedledee. When he got home, Mrs. Davidson took one look at the close-cut sward and shrieked: "You are awful-you are terrible-don't come near me-don't touch...