Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today it will face a once beaten, twice tied Yale team with a smooth offensive backfield which moves behind a mammoth line. It is a good Yale team, one which on its own performances rates a touchdown edge. But against a Harvard team which possesses a truly fine backfield, a constantly improving line, and 12 years of incentive, there should be no favorite. Certainly the Crimson, which hasn't been outplayed all season is a very imposing underdog...
...some modern twists which set the film considerably above most of Fairbanks' previous efforts. An Anglo-American venture, the picture was released two years ago, but was somehow buried as The Great Manhunt in the second spot on double bills. Now, under its original title, it emerges a smooth, suave thriller, speckled with some bright bits of comedy...
Sprague will do this for two reasons. First, he has had only two days to teach his offense to members of the Kirkland, Dudley and Lowell. A smooth running offense, he feels, would be superior to a more powerful but ragged combined attack. In this game of two platoon football, Sprague will use representatives of the other Houses on defense...
Ants are not the models of industry that they are reputed to be. They spend many waking hours just lazing around or sunning themselves. They stage mock-battles and wrestling matches. Before they sleep they often make themselves comfortable by scooping smooth hollows in the soil. When they wake they stretch their six legs and open their mandibles wide as if they were yawning...
Embarrassed by all the uproar, Equitable's directors seemed anxious to smooth over the trouble if they could. But neither Parkinson nor Bohlinger was in any mood to let them do so. Using his broad legal powers as superintendent, Bohlinger requested a special meeting of Equitable's directors to consider the entire affair. Parkinson canceled plans to enter the hospital for an eye operation, was expected to be at the meeting...