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Word: smoothly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wright and the Sourmash Boys, who have been there several times before, came on first and under their strange assemblage of hats--ten-gallon, cowboy, Clyde Barrow--played their set surely and professionally. But somehow, it seemed like a Cambridgey re-write of basic blue-grass, even without the smooth easy transitions and just damn inspired playing of the Scruggs for contrast. There's something a bit flat about John Lincoln Wright's voice--it gets the job done but doesn't sound like it loves to--as the group just plunges on from one steeled-up blue-grass tune...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Scruggs Fugs | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...organizers at the Phillips Brooks House meeting stressed the University's interest in conducting a smooth Reunion Week and Commencement ceremony...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Striker Coalition Readies Commencement Protests | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

Students of the bizarre who have little confidence in Corbett and Robinson may be interested in the dream interpretations of another authority, who states that houses with smooth walls represent men; those with projections, women. "Zeppelin airships" represent the male sexual organ, as do hats, fish and overcoats. Snails, tables and churches are female symbols, and so are cities, fortresses and wood. A three-leaf clover is male. The interpretations in this paragraph were offered by Sigmund Freud in his Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Signs and Portents | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...insight--are embodied in the "good mechanic's" relation to the machine. Here enters the "Zen" of the title, in the attentiveness and patience, the carefully attained identification with his work that characterize a good mechanic: "The material and the craftsman's thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right." The good mechanic becomes our own down-home counterpart of the Zen archer...

Author: By William E. Forbath, | Title: Seeking The Good Mechanic | 5/24/1974 | See Source »

...lightweight varsity also recaptured the championship, which Princeton won last year. Like the heavyweights, the lights rowed an extraordinarily smooth and intelligent race...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Radcliffe, Harvard Crews Show Championship Style In Capturing Seven of Nine Eastern Sprints Titles | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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