Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October 14--Coach "Biff" Jones diagnosis of the mistakes made in the Davidson game constituted the main part of today's workout for the Army team. He held a long skull session, pointing out the errors that his aides had noted, in an effort to perfect a smooth running machine...
...last week (see p. 27) the volley of cheering was not unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi...
...three days that Coach French had his first team together he concentrated on one backfield. When, just before game time it was disclosed that Gibson, fullback, was ineligible and Wells, quarterback, had developed a bad knee, it was hard to make up a smooth working backfield. This probably accounts for the big weakness in pass defense shown by the Freshmen...
...tentative naval agreements thus far reached by President Hoover and British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald will be laid before France, Italy and Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command" and reported to the King-Emperor the basis on which Britain and the U. S. propose to achieve naval parity and eventually a large measure of naval disarmament...
...motor with his landing wheel brakes on. Then he had a bystander give his vanes a shove. They wobbled around about once a minute. He speeded up his motor and the propeller slipstream made the vanes rotate rapidly, about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating a practically solid disc-shaped plane surface reflecting air downward. His take-off was slow...