Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally ready to begin his series of murals for the library. Prominent visitors, alumni, officials students, and townspeople watched attentively from the long basement study hall. Orozco carefully prepared his colors and began to paint. But the deft strokes of the master muralist began to trickle down the smooth plaster wall. The crowd snickered; Orozco fumed...
...case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once a nonlegal delegation discussed the case with President Pusey. The result of these goings on was a letter from the President to members of the Association deploring the ill-will, outlining the concessions he and the Fellows...
...Class Day Committee, however, the possibility of at least one member from each House has merit. Unlike the Permanent Committee, the Class Day group must work closely with the Houses in planning Senior Week. Wide distribution would permit each member to smooth out administrative details with his own House, and sample attitudes toward Class Day plans...
...accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...
...Kiddie-Kar Travel" and "The Stranger Within Our Gates." Shakespeare, the opera, and the French language get theirs, in bitter doses. Sometimes a line stands out alone, like the crafty nostalgia of "It was April, long before Spring had really understood what was expected of her." Or the smooth unexpectedness of, "One evening I had been working late in my laboratory fooling round with some gin and other chemicals...