Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method is that used by Coach Brown in experimenting with combinations in an attempt to find the oarsman best fitted for each particular post. The other used this year by Coach Whiteside, is to place eight men in a boat and await the fusion of the differences into a smooth and well balanced machine. Both systems have been used; the success of the latter has been more marked because of its eventual merging of slight variations under the influence of one central idea. Ky Elright, at California, stands forth as the coach who has had the greatest success in pressing...
...overnight, it has become suitable for these favorites to cap their professional careers, within a few months of their arrival at the broadcasting station SUCCESS, by publishing their memoirs. It was little more than two years ago that the son of a village druggist in Maine first sent his smooth young voice floating out to the enraptured ladies and envious gentlemen of the radio audience. Yet already, longlipped, wavy-blonde-haired Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee of Westbrook, Me., the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, and the Villa Vallee, Manhattan, has passed so far into sentimental history that he and his managers consider...
...Esme's service in the U. S., His Majesty may well be proud. He had taken hold of Anglo-U. S. relations when they were still War-snarled. He left them smooth and orderly. For his quiet success, many a friend believed he would be properly rewarded by his sovereign. Now only a Knight, he might well be advanced to a Baron and take the title of Lord Howard of Greystoke, since he was born at Greystoke Castle, Cumberland. Should the Labor Government overlook his Conservative politics and noble lineage, it might permit King George to make him Viscount...
...hard, slick ice of many Canadian cities the curlers use irons, but in Winnipeg, as in Edinburgh and other conservative places they use 35-lb. stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...
...meant. Author Wilder's books are polished, scholarly, classical. Nevertheless, the U. S. acclaims him. The secret of Author Wilder's success is his style-one of the most readable styles ever produced by a U. S. writer. Highbrows call it limpid. Plain people call it pretty smooth...