Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Wachter's basket-ball tossers are considered an easy victory in the home game. In the Dorn-Barbee-Leekley combination the team presents a smooth-working threat to the Worcester defense. These three men carried the Crimson attack in the recent Clark encounter and their teamwork contributed considerably to the final 34 to 14 score of that game...
...then to a gallop, while the wind continued to rise and the air to fill with dust. Nearer came the riders, gaining rapidly, so that it seemed that half an hour would bring them upon us. Ten minutes more and we ran into a dried river course, filled with smooth, rounded stones, the most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses in mixed French and Arabic and lashed the faltering baggage camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly...
...Huck, as might have been expected, is still shiftless, happy-go-lucky, not very respectable. Always a smooth liar, he took to professional story-telling years ago. Only since respectability went into a decline has he been really successful. On disreputable subjects like night fishing, adultery, peeking in at lighted windows and loafing, he is quite an authority, having had in them a lifelong interest. He can write about them, too, up to a certain incoherent point where the blissful inanity- or is it miracle?-of "just being alive" turns upon itself and leaves his lazy mind groping for words...
...difficult did it become to smooth such jagged edges at Geneva that Ministers Chamberlain, Briand and Stresemann adjourned the League Council, gathered at their hotel, and kept telephoning to Paris and Berlin most of the night...
...early games of the football season are always hard ones and productive of injuries," said Coach Farrell. "The men have not attained the smooth efficiency of play that comes later in the fall, and carlessness leads to certain injury. A knock that late in the year might do no harm may cause serious injury at this early stage of the game...