Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plucked its publisher, Col.* William Franklin Knox, and made him publisher of the Boston American. Year later Publisher Hearst boosted his colonel to be general manager of all Hearst dailies, with a reputed salary of $150,000 a year. The course of the next three years was not wholly smooth. Big, self-confident Col. Knox several times offered his resignation, which "W. R." refused, believing perhaps that experience in the big business of chain publishing would eventually shape his man to the ways of Hearst. Last week he accepted it, uttered regrets. Reason given by Col. Knox: "... A difference...
Despite the warm weather, the ice was good until the end of the second session when it had become cut. Coach Stubbs stressed the lightness of the practice so as to gradually smooth out awkwardness and to instill confidence in skating ability. At present nearly 75 men are working out three times a week and this group must be cut to approximately...
Arnold Bennett loves big hotels, has a simple passion for their complicated, smooth-running luxury. As insatiably curious as the Elephant's Child, he had nosed out everything he could about the "luxury hotel." Imperial Palace's 769 pages, besides comprising a fine novel, contain enough information on hotel management to serve as a manual...
...Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...
...platitude to observe that Harvard education is formalistic. The use of the German lecture system, an unwieldy student body, and countless mechanical cogs, many of them admittedly necessary to insure the smooth running of a large university, make the practical application of unimpeded scholarship difficult...