Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the first of these changes, namely the shifting of the date of the Student Council elections, it was felt that by holding the elections in the spring rather than in the fall the new Council would have more time to get into smooth working order and would be ready for business at the beginning of the next college year. In this system, the old and new Councils will sit together for a certain length of time and will give a joint dinner to which all members of the Councils will be invited, as well as the chairmen...
Meanwhile, at Paris, Premier Briand did his best to smooth matters over and quiet the press. Said...
President Lincoln. Smooth and sleek-faced as a well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from...
...prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards in 6 4/5 seconds breaking a world's record* that has stood for 18 years...
There is no sign of play-acting in the graceful movements of the Polynesians. Their skins are brown and smooth; litheness and strength and daring. The shutter has caught them working, laughing, and idling the sunny hours away. One feels somehow that they have never known dissatisfaction and worry, that they have never grown up. But see the picture, before we tell you too much about...