Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...
...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
Even in the midst of his affliction the outpouring of his verse continued, pure, strong-rhythmed, smooth-flowing and simply lyrical as no German verse had been before. The wit that had made him one of the century's greatest epigrammatists remained undiminished. When he made his will, leaving everything to his wife Mathilda, he stipulated that she must marry again immediately after his death. "In that way, I shall be sure at least one man is sorry I am no longer alive." Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors...
...dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...
...Worn smooth by passing feet since the building was erected in 1811, the steps became dangerous when covered with ice last year. Maintenance officials decided to refurbish the stairs when one of the professors slipped on the path to knowledge...