Word: steadier
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...Gordon-Perkins match was the closest of the tournament to date. Neither player held a material advantage in strokes or power, but Gordon was the steadier and was able to concentrate his strength on the vital points...
While neither played brilliantly, according to Coach Cowles, each put up a consistent getting game. Rawlins was the steadier of the two, as the impetuous attack of Debevoise often resulted in misplaced shots. Rawlins was frequently successful in scoring aces on his serve...
...fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony...
...Thomas. At the age of seven a skillful mimic of Marcellus Stengel, his schoolmaster, he is pronounced "witty and brilliant" by Jean Jacques Hoffstede, the poet. He continues a skillful mimic to the end. But beyond that he accomplishes nothing?except to spend Buddenbrook money and to irritate the steadier Thomas...
...program with stabilized wages and a downward tendency in material prices. After the general abandonment of new building this spring (TIME, May 28), when construction costs were rapidly mounting, the labor situation became easier. Now, instead of attempting to overdo production, the industry is apparently entering a period of steadier and less expensive even if slower construction. An analysis of the country's building requirements shows that the present demand for buildings-a survival of the long war period of inadequate construction-would warrant for the next ten years a building program 25% above normal production. The problem will...