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Word: smoothly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Political Sermon | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity and crystallography who became director of the National Physical Laboratories last year. On their grass tennis court he and his handsome, winsome wife play tennis (Professor Bragg usually but not always wins), and on their smooth green lawn the Braggs and their four children have picnic-like teas, weather permitting, every afternoon. Their favorite room is the one in which Queen Adelaide died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...tribute to the smooth functioning of the University's administration that the Harvard Forest at Petersham, typical of the little-known parts of Harvard, has been placed before the public eye as a result of the recent hurricane, and has stood the test of public opinion with success. Both the fact that the University maintains the oldest experimental forest tract in America, and the fact that men like Ward Shepard '10 comprise its staff, cannot help but bring forth creditable comment from the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNKNOWN SOLDIER | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...other day Arthur Sampson of the "Herald" wrote that Harvard is not yet so "smooth and precise" as it was last year mainly because "Vernon Struck's clever faking ability is missed...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Gridmen In High Gear Compared to '37 | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...Because the marble-smooth salt in the early morning is marble cold, cools friction-heated tires, lessens a driver's greatest fear: blowouts. Meteorologists also claim that a greater speed can be attained in the rare air of Bonneville (4,300 feet above sea level). A speed of 345 m.p.h. at Bonneville would be only 293 m.p.h. at sea level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed Match | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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