Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fumble by the Harvard halfback on the kickoff recovered by Middlesex, led to the first Middlesex touchdown within 40 seconds of play. From then on, during the first quarter, the Middlesex team made the most of their smooth running criss-cross plays, and Jackson, playing at fullback tallied another touchdown. In the second quarter one of the many lateral passes which the schoolboys had perfected was received by Jackson, and he tore loose from several would-be tacklers and ran down the field for another touchdown...
...From then on his duties came thick & fast. He was sent all over the State by Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo to boom War Saving Stamps. Soon after, President Wilson put him on the Allied Maritime Transport Council, sent him to Europe. Here again Morrow proved himself fast analyst and smooth conciliator...
...gave Candidate Johnson, even though the ticket was split, the whopping majority of 8,990. The Johnson victory brought the total number of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives to 214, tied the Republicans, put the theoretical balance of power once more in the hands of smooth-haired young Representative Paul John Kvale, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite...
...before. Reams of paper have been consumed in attacking and ridiculing the plan, but despite all journalistic comment, it is now an accomplished fact. True, as a Harvard senior has pointed out in his article in the Hoot, the Houses have their disadvantages. Only time will be able to smooth over the present crudities that now afford subjects for Lampoon cartoons...
While tennis was spreading over the U. S. and about the world, Richard Dudley Sears, waving his thick-framed racket at Newport and on the smooth lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston, held the championship for seven years. He might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th...