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Word: cleverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team is passer, runner, and T-formation quarterback Frank Burns, who directed the squad's 13 to 0 upset here last year. Besides his clever ball-handling, Burns backs up the line on defense...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Fast Rutgers Eleven Makes Second Stadium Run Today | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Said South Carolina's big James Richards : "We saw the Communist leaders in Italy and France and England. They are tough, hard, fanatical, well-financed and clever. They have the whole misery of the people to trade on. The European Governments are mostly made up of men who are old and tired and haven't the drive and determination of the Communists." One of the most cunning and toughest of Europe's Reds, according to Congressmen: Italy's Togliatti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Appraisers Come Home | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Sophie, in her clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...have to smuggle mood into an American picture. Mood itself, American audiences will not swallow. You have to be extremely clever. You do it with a shoehorn. For instance, a European opens his picture with a shot of the clouds. Then another, very beautiful. Then a third. The audience accepts it as part of the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mood | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...plot plus R & H treatment would have made a musical, but perhaps that wouldn't have satisfied that hungry artistic ambition. The rest of "Allegro" is something altogether original and brilliant: an Impressionist's satire of twentieth century American life. Achieved by a combination of fantastic lighting, expressive ballet, clever writing, and impressionistic music, this satire breaks through in three scenes which should not be forgotten regardless of the rest of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allegro | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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