Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two "peak load" periods, the incoming in September, and the exodus in June. But the reserve power of a national organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home-to-room service is unimpaired in efficiency. The express agency does the job in one motion, saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...
MacFarlane then sailed south to San Pedro, whence the first race finally started in June. Since then the race has always been smooth and comfortable, quite unlike similar ones on the Atlantic. It has never taken any lives, caused any wrecks. Fastest passage was made in 1923 when the 107-ft. schooner Mariner sailed from Santa Barbara to Honolulu in u days, 14 hr., 46 min. Last race, in 1934, was won by the 60-ft. schooner Mariner owned and sailed by Honolulu's Harold G. Dillingham, commodore of the Transpacific Yacht Club...
...varsity oarsmen nd putting jayvees in their places. Harvard's amiable Coach Charles Whiteside had commented mildly on a lack of interest. His men, he said, came late to practice. The race reversed this situation. At the finish, Yale's varsity came in six lengths behind a smooth rowing Harvard boat whose time of 20:19 for four miles was within five seconds of the upstream course record. Promptly after Harvard had won its fourth race on the Thames in seven years, Coach Whiteside was told that he was fired...
...Angell's very successful social personality, which has done much to smooth his long academic route and manifests itself at once in the friendly twinkle of his eye, emerged shortly after the Chinese interlude. At the University of Michigan, "Jim" Angell learned to strike a discreet mean between the propriety expected of the president's son, the humanity expected of a normal undergraduate. He became a Phi Beta Kappa and a Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band...
Before he had gone far in what his office called the "graveyard story," Investigator Fritchey knew he had some-thing big. He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been...