Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platitude to observe that Harvard education is formalistic. The use of the German lecture system, an unwieldy student body, and countless mechanical cogs, many of them admittedly necessary to insure the smooth running of a large university, make the practical application of unimpeded scholarship difficult...
...Spanish Iturbi was the sensation of last season. He is an elfin person, called by his friends "Petrouschka." He plays the piano as if he enjoyed it tremendously, takes each phrase separately, polishes it smooth, turns it a dozen ways to catch the different lights. Iturbi will give some 70 recitals this season, appear as soloist with the Cleveland, New York Philharmonic, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Orchestras...
...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...
...only opponent was the Merion course. "A man can get along all right [at Merion] if the white faces don't get him," said Chick Evans, onetime titleholder. He meant the big bunkers, filled with chalk-white sand that makes them stand out pale and threatening beside the smooth greens, across the well-watered fairways. Not a particularly long course, with only two holes where a tournament player needs wood for his second shot, Merion is notable for its formidable par fours, its exacting threes, and for an old quarry that sprawls like an ungainly footprint through three fairways...
These affairs were later whispered to be a "series of secret offers," reputedly exchanged between M. Briand and Signore Grandi at Geneva in an effort to smooth over the "Mediterranean relations" of Italy and France-i.e. Italy's claim to naval parity with France which nearly wrecked the London Conference (TIME. Jan. 27 to April 28), and the French demand that Italian emigrants to Tunis become French citizens. If such vital matters were indeed up for secret discussion before the League convened last week, Signore Grandi was certainly justified in quitting the windy Assembly discussions to report...