Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then in 1914 Fritz Haber, clever German necromancer, found that nitrogen gas can be captured in another way-by combining it with hydrogen to form ammonia. Instead of electricity, the Haber process makes use of an agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed...
...break up the shot, but Zarakov put the rubber past him. In the second period the Crimson showed an alarming facility in losing the puck. Captain Coady played valliantly, and in spite of a severe cold that sapped his energy, he brought about the third goal by a clever pass to Scott. Only Flood's remarkable stops prevented Eli scores in this period and the last, in which Hamlen scored the final goal on a pass from Zarakov...
...Haven warriors will come to the Boston Arena with one defeat behind them, and that a close 2-1 whipping at the hands of the Princeton 1927 combination. With this stigma to erase they will not put up any less fight because of the loss of Fred Robinson, their clever left wing, who is out for the season as a result of injuries received in a recent game with St. Paul's School. Four competent substitutes are ready to take his place...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
...Crimson started out like champions. A sparkling sally down the floor by Smith brought the first score. Clever teamwork and some fine shooting by Smith and Rudofsky speedily gave the University five an 11 to 3 lead...