Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth the path to the Dean's office, workmen will be pounding away at the steps of University Hall with bush hammers for the next few days. The surface of the slippery steps, which has been the cause of a flying tumble for many is being chopped into little ridges...
...crew had been rowing together for six weeks and had practiced racing starts since the beginning of the season. As a result it got an early lead, while maintaining a fairly low stroke. The other crews, many of whose oarsmen had no racing experience, were unable to keep a smooth stroke at a fast pace. Wilson's crew widened the margin to two lengths...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
...Dressed in my costume as the Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went...
...Legdrive" Comstock's smooth stroking boatload scored a full length victory over Spike Chace's outfit yesterday in a mile race on the basin course. The winners covered the distance...