Search Details

Word: smoothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...months after Frye left, TWA ordered twelve new Connies. The line's once bad credit had improved enough so that some 14 banks put up the $15,000,000 to pay for them. TWA had not yet flown through all the rough weather. But the air was smoother than it had been for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Toonerville Triumph | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Since the Eagles have demonstrated their ability to stop the fast break style of play in downing St. Anselm and almost matching Rhode Island State, two of the smoother flirehorse units in the country, coach Barclay probably will be content to use a more conservative system against Letvinchuk, O'Brien, and Company...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Basketball Team Heads West After B. C. Tilt to Challenge Iowa, Illinois | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...strength comes as a result of adversity, the skaters may expect to rebound from a rough time this Christmas to find smoother sailing in February and March against their traditional Ivy League foes. Right now such future opponents as Yale and Dartmouth loom as heavy favorites, with Princeton as an even-money choice...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Five-Game Hockey Tour Opens With McGill on Montreal Rink Tonight | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out-always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured-it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Impressed by the fact that the Taft bill could be made into law, House conferees studied how to fit their tougher Hartley bill into its smoother outlines. When House and Senate conferees began negotiations, House conferees were in a conciliatory mood. The bill which would finally emerge would be pretty much Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: After Four Months | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | Next