Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is, indeed, a most clever bit of deduction on the part of the Harvard students. But the transfers have a different story to tell. "I just changed," one of them says, "because I thought I'd enjoy going to college here more than I would have at Harvard." Short, terse, accurate. This statement should be recorded as one of the pithiest single sentences in the history of transferring...
After admiring Pesky's linguistic gymnastics for a few moments, some bright reporter asked how the officials were going to start the runners in the meet without having to pause for translation. Now the H. A. A. is pretty clever and thinks of all sorts of things, but this had just never occurred to them
...wonders what TIME is coming to, when the Sept. 3 issue includes Zenith's news column about its Mussolini-filtering radio, the Parker House clever news column under "Hotels." Milshire Gin's news column advertising their advertising, and the Heinz TIMEstyle two-column...
...uncanny eye for telling bits of evidence, Chane soon finds out enough to cause an attempt to be made on his own cause an attempt to be made on his life. With only eight hours remaining before the time set for the execution of Gray, Chan sets a clever trap and the foxy villian falls right into it. It you decide in the beginning who looks least like the dastardly villain you will have solved the case and will not have to resolved the case and will not have to remain any longer...
...lone outstanding weakness of the Boston brigade a year ago was its lack of a good forward passer. Coach Dietz has more than made up for this single drawback, however, by signing a sextet of clever forward passers any one of whom appears capable of filling the bill to perfection. Five of these lossers hall from little known institutions but they have revealed already that they will add greater strength to the celebrated Boston offense. The sixth passer is the brilliant Pug Reniner of Northwestern one of the most widely known of modern football players and a great all-round...