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Word: cleverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the absence of Bruce Richardson, who was still unable to wrestle this week, weakens the team, but he is being replaced by Art Page, a clever wrestler, who should make the 145 pound battle close when he meets Dick Heilbron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Matmen Heavy Choice to Overthrow Quakers Today Despite Absence of Richardson, Star 145-Pound Grappler | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...landed on and occupied, in spite of a 32-year-old treaty with France and in the teeth of warnings received last year from France and Britain, this fertile and strategic patch of about 13,500 square miles. Once more the Anti-Comintern bloc was up to its clever trick of kicking the democracies in the pants when they were worried about troubles elsewhere. The Japanese war office hissed assurances that the Hainan occupation was purely a military operation to keep the Chinese from shipping arms to South China. The Japanese said they would withdraw when there was no further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Japan Steps South | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week the merger was a reality. Engineered by clever Tom Dennehy, who became president of the new Sprague Warner, it gave both companies what they most needed. Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commuters' Merger | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...peasants of Tenorio Viejo, who want irrigation for their lands, against the Don, who wants lace for his coats and whose income is peasants' rents. The peasants are lovable, clumsily funny, tragically simple. But there is nothing lovable about Miss Warner's Juan, imperious, selfish, ruthless, clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Juan, Cont'd | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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