Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
Peace Design. But plane designers have found the jet plane's peacetime possibilities more exciting than its potential military uses. The jet plane gives an amazingly smooth, comfortable ride, with no vibration, little noise. Passengers would hear only the rush of air over the plane's wings; groundlings do not hear the plane at all until it is overhead, when it whooshes past like the blast of a giant blowtorch. Equipped with a pressurized cabin, the plane is expected to cruise at well over 400 m.p.h., and to fly at altitudes above the prewar U.S. record...
...also has several cards up its sleeve. For one thing, Murray, with his smooth delivery and flawless timing, squires each wrinkled act around as though it were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...
Coach Adolph Samborski's B team had better luck earlier in the evening, shading Boston University, 37 to 35. In gaining their seventh victory, the Jayvees displayed smooth ball-handling and alert play, which enabled them to make up a The Harvard summary: f.g. f.t. pts. Johnson, r.f. 3 3 9 Clark, l.f. 3 7 13 Wolfe 0 0 0 Keene, c. 4 1 9 Noble 1 0 2 Wallace, r.g. 2 1 5 Burk 0 0 0 Collins, l.g. 0 1 1 Total...
...smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...