Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors. As there are 1,365 blocks altogether in Boylston, and as two men can clip two and one-eighth stones in one day 25 hours and 76 minutes, one will see at a glance that...
...advantages of the Thames river as a racing ground are too well known to need more than passing notice. The water is almost invariably smooth enough for rowing during the latter part of the afternoon, and it has been the experience of those of our men who have been there for two or three years that the wind, if there is any, nearly always goes down by sunset. No race has yet been postponed there over the day appointed. New London also offers a chance for yacht clubs to meet and see the race, - a capital grand stand, and good...
...Although the former won, the latter maintained throughout the excellent form by which they were successful in both races last spring, and seem to offer several possible candidates for the 'Varsity. As usual with the autumn races, the weather was not very favorable, and the water was far from smooth. Some defective points in the arrangements for the race are alluded to in the account which we publish elsewhere, and we might add that there were no tickets to the Union Boat House, which occasioned some dissatisfaction. We mention these matters that they may be rectified in the spring...
...Smooth of face and short of stature...
PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled...