Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached the quarter-pole first with winnings of $4,448. A hair's breadth behind...
...Juan Terry Trippe, 39, smooth president of Pan American Airways, the American Arbitration Association's gold Medal for "promotion of international good will and distinguished service in commercial peace." Past recipients: Charles M. Schwab, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry F. Guggenheim...
...majority of the smooth-running State and city machines like Chicago's, New York's, Boston's, Kansas City...
...winners are likely to be young singers of more than average ability. Last week Metropolitan General Manager Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father...
Author Scherman sets out with an admirable purpose: to make economics readable, and to show up Carlyle, who labeled economics "the dismal science." Scherman's economic theory is as simple as his conclusions are fantastic. He defines economics as a promise economy depending for its smooth running on mutual honesty. His startling discovery is that the scheme does work, that men are honest. Thus the employer keeps his promise, within a "thousandth of a per cent" to pay his employes. Employers, manufacturers, retailers, tenants, banks, even "soulless" corporations and installment buyers-all these, says Author Scherman, pay their financial...