Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bust history, was busting all over in 1953, with 1,800 of its 6,700 residents on or asking for relief. Then two major oil companies opened big refineries in the area, and Anacortes was suddenly riding the biggest boom in its history, But the town took it in smooth stride the usual headaches of sudden expansion averted by shrewd, bureau-directed advance planning...
...lining the banks of the Thames that spring when Yale won its third straight varsity crew race from Harvard, this time by five and half lengths. The Crimson boat had been shaken up several times during the season but still was no match for "the polished, oily-smooth combination that was Yale...
Professor (of social studies) Wootton gave no pat prescription for resolving the dilemma, but confided: "For my own part I must confess that I can never listen to panegyrics of mental health as smooth personal adjustment without being haunted by the ghost of that most misfitting of all misfits-Florence Nightingale. Had that astonishing woman been born of this generation, must we suppose that a Child Guidance Clinic would have put an early stop to all her nonsense...
...furious price competition and inflexible patent monopolies, waited three years before turning its first profit. Then it moved fast. Founder Harvey S. Firestone Sr. developed one of the first pneumatic tires, went on to pioneer the first practical nonskid tire by stamping "FIRESTONE NONSKID" in raised letters on the smooth surfaces. Before he died in 1938, Firestone sales were well past the $500 million mark...
This season, however, the quality of the opposition the Crimson must overcome is unprecedented in its excellence. Cornell, which won the Eastern Sprints at Washington, is a strong, smooth outfit. Second to Cornell in the Sprints was Yale, a contingent which Love describes as an "extraordinary good crew." In addition to these two eights Harvard would race Washington and California, both first-rate western crews...