Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other than the duly constituted judicial agencies of the Church. Its political program was to put in the field?as it successfully did last year after the Modernist-Fundamentalist fight had reached its peak?a tolerant nonmilitant Fundamentalist who would administer church affairs in a businesslike way and smooth over internal disputes...
Last week at Paris a Franco-German air compact was signed. Its purport was to smooth out the more embittered points of contention between France and Germany, while leaving in effect the drastic Allied restrictions upon purely military German aircraft...
...first mile held almost a length's advantage over the Princeton shell. But they had to row a high stroke to keep in front of the procession and exhausted their reserve too soon. The Tiger combination, rowing at least three points lower, kept within easy hailing distance with a smooth, powerful stroke. It was evident early in the race that their bid, when they put the stroke up, was going to be dangerous...
...second first year crew jumped into the lead at the start, but then putting the stroke up too high they lost their full power and soon fell behind the schoolboys. The oarsmen in both Freshman boats seemed to have difficulty in spacing out properly and getting a smooth stroke. The slow time of 6 minutes 14 seconds over a mile course was due largely to the strong head wind and the roughness of the water on the basin...
...bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call "the pole of inaccessibility," one of the objectives for which their backers had sent them north...