Word: steadier
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...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
...group is highly intelligent: it stands at about the ninety-seventh percentile of the general population. It is not significantly more intelligent than the college at large, but steadier in tests...
Coach Stahl commented yesterday as his squad loafed through a light batting drill that steadier defense play and an edge in the pitching department turned the trick against Melville. Wallace, who was pitted against a former Chicago White Sox hurler, notched ten strikeouts...
...with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness of vision, how much was modesty, how much was love of quietness and independence? . . . Education such as I received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality of outlook and ambition, which I should not have encountered amid the complex passions and intrigues of a Spanish...
What the French lacked in footpower, they made up in teamwork and passing. Although the Crimson could outkick the men of the Richelieu by a country mile, the Frenchmen were more adept at the arts of the game and, with steadier land legs, could probably have scored more often...