Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poughkeepsie; where rain made the Hudson gloomy and smooth, and at New London, where $45,000,000 worth of yachts were crowded into the mouth of the Thames, were rowed last week the two great rowing races of the year...
...river stretched down from the starting line dark and smooth as a mirror, dimpled by the rain. The crews splashed away to a fair start, with the Navy ahead for a second, then Pennsylvania, then Washington. Washington kept the lead and pushed three lengths ahead of the Navy in the first mile. Coxswain Burke was keeping the Cornell boat close to Syracuse. The Columbia boat was going badly, rowing a high, laborious beat without much run between the strokes...
...Walsh McLean, wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
Cruising had been smooth and uneventful. Then unexpectedly the batteries began to fail. Next the starboard engine failed completely. On one engine, the Nautilus grunted through quiet seas at 8 knots. A gale came up. All night the crippled submarine fought the waves. By morning Sir Hubert decided he had better wireless for help. The U. S. S. Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus...
This afternoon, the conditions were improved, with smooth water and the sky clearing off for the first time this week. For a change, the University and Jayvee boats went upstream, covering about seven miles in all, but never rowing at more than a low stroke. The two other crews practically repeated their morning performances, going downstream another two miles, and then returning at the same pace. The eights devoted their work to short spurts of speed, at no time maintaining a steady high stroke...