Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. By week's end 8,000 workers had got what Sidney Hillman wanted them to get, 5,000 workers had gone back to work, and the "most peaceful, satisfactory strike" in that shrewd labor leader's history seemed to be drawing to a finish as smooth as silk...
...respectively. Skipper Sopwith spent $150 to have Endeavour II hauled out of the water at Bristol. Maybe, he thought, a lobster pot had fouled her hull. Ranger's skipper did likewise. But no lobster pot was holding Endeavour back. Her sea-hardened paint was smooth, her hull sleek. Ranger's newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt won the next two races by less embarrassing margins...
...Stella H. Adamson was driving Dr. May E. Walker to the cottages which they jointly owned and rented at Lake Tahoe, Calif. Mrs. Adamson's rear tire treads were worn smooth. The pavements were wet. Suddenly the car skidded, slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...
...came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne gave first place to a design of two reposeful, smooth figures by Manhattan's William Zorach, returned to San Francisco to explode in outraged telegrams when he learned that Ronnebeck had been selected again...
...Captain Walter Hagen, who had remained abroad for exhibition matches, tried to smooth over the rudeness of his less seasoned confreres by saying: "Some of the boys take their golf too seriously. . . . Ralph Guldahl says the only cheers the Americans got were when they missed shots. If that's so, they got plenty of cheers, for they played some bad golf. . . . The boys were doubtless tired when Guldahl made his statement, but take no notice...