Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long confetti-streamers which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare...
Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...
...buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden salad bowl...
...clearly Eliot's race all the way on the charles yesterday as a smooth and powerful Elephant shell surged across the finish line in the record time of 7:08 to win the Agassiz House crew...
...Varsity fifties eight but Jayvee sweepers set up a new course record on Lake Carnegie. Bob Homas' smooth stroking of the Crimson boat accounted for a 6:54.2 winning time over the Yale and Princeton seconds...