Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden's task will be to steer a course through obstacles heaped in apparently inextricable confusion. Premier Laval's clever move in leaving the final [French] decision on the oil embargo to the Chamber of Deputies makes London doubtful of the possibility of proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...
Whatever gems "Tony" cut last week, he has 61 chances this week to cut more, as the 61 foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. James's call to pay their respects. The Iranian envoy was all primed to hear clever, young Mr. Eden speak Iranian (Farssi), a tongue with which the new Foreign Secretary sometimes amuses pretty ladies at parties...
...failed to resume its co-operative teamwork, every man playing his own game for the first few minutes. Toward the end of the period the Crimson men began to close up on the Engineers, the lead teetering from one side to the other. A last minute drive climaxed by clever handling of the ball by Garth clinched the game for M.I.T...
...objectively or to one's own mind, or whether it be by the blazing of new trails of thought by rigorous and logical analysis, then their task certainly cannot be properly conceived. At present my impression is that certainly sent my impression is that the light-hearted, superficial but clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling honestly to express in unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose...
...Clever" undergraduates who sign up for lockers in more than one athletic building can be detected within a very short time, it was revealed recently by the Department of Physical Education...