Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week eight men who form a congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...
...Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan. Foreign correspondents guessed that Italy was balking at helping, even morally, her ally Germany against her old tried-&-true friend Poland, and that the German Foreign Minister's trip (plus trips by German military men) was simply an attempt to again smooth out ruffled relations. Even the Italian press, which unanimously described the enthusiastic crowds which greeted Herr von Ribbentrop at Milan, editorially predicted that the conference would produce "no sensation...
...wing developed during the past year. Approximately one-half the drag, i.e., the speed-killing characteristic, of the modern airplane is caused by its wings. Most of the wing drag is caused by air friction along the surface which, as the plane speeds through the air, changes from a smooth or laminar flow near the leading edge to a tumbling, churning turbulence farther back on the wing...
...smooth-working Varsity eight returned the trimming which Harvey Love's first-year crew handed it over a week ago with interest by pulling away from the Yardling boat by a full six lengths yesterday afternoon...
...years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service has expired. In comparison with this smooth machine, involving a minimum number of men in training on the British Isles, last week's proposal was revolutionary...