Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...
...cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear-no projections, no bumps, smooth contour, and the sleekness of line of a purring kitten...
...Andy Bahr's drive was to be measured in years, not months. Storm after storm beat down. Time & again wolves picked off a few of the herd, stampeded the rest. They came to rivers frozen glare-smooth and the drivers had to notch the ice with picks to give the animals a footing. Fawning seasons forced long halts. In summer black, torturing clouds of flies and mosquitoes swept across the tundra. In winter men and beasts wandered off in blizzards to be gone for days or weeks. For months at a time the whole troupe was lost...
...debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob A. Voice scraped together all the profits the company had, pledged his personal stock and life insurance policies to borrow $500,000 from Commercial Investment Trust, specialists in automobile financing. With the money he paid off Atlas. By last week he had reacquired all Atlas stock holdings. Commercial Investment Trust...
...Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...