Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side, the flags 100 yd. apart marking your course. They go by like pickets in a fence. You feel the accelerator trembling against your foot because, although the sand looks smooth, there are ridges in it. Your head is pushed back against a leather cushion. You notice that the few seconds it takes to cover a mile pass very slowly...
...unpleasant. Sir Malcolm Campbell minded them little enough to go again last month to Daytona Beach, with bigger Rolls-Royce engines than ever in his Blue Bird, to see how much faster he could go. Last week, after long waiting for wind and tides to make the beach sufficiently smooth and dry, he found...
Feeling the need for additional competition before the encounter with the Blue in the Garden, Coach Stubbs arranged the game and used it to smooth out the defects apparent in the last game in New Haven. The Bruins used their entire squad, alternating the first, second, and third teams, but indulged in no body-checking. Since the offense of the Crimson has shown itself as weaker than had been thought, Coach Stubbs concentrated on the forward walls and was pleased with the improvement over the Yale game form...
...first day's racing on stubby little two-man sleds, the track was smooth but comparatively slow. It took J. Hubert Stevens, who won the Olympic Championship last year, a fraction of a second more than 8 minutes to make four trips. The fraction-.21 sec.-was about the time he wasted steering back onto the track when, on his last run, his sled skidded at the last curve and one runner slid over the edge. Second and third places went to his brothers, Curtis and Raymond...
...editorial in today's H.A.A. News, reprinted in full below, is stood obviously an attempt to smooth over an unpleasant situation which arose a week ago when Coach Farrell at a special meeting of the track team, requested the squad to cooperate in strictly maintaining the training rules...