Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
While temperatures are not as uncomfortable as they have been, the present low-20-degree weather will keep snow on the ground, to hamper post-exam travelling. Students will note Winter's clever timing in bringing record low temperature days as Harvard returned from the holidays, and now in assuring difficult exit from cold, damp Cambridge...
...hands on up the sleeve of the coat. Another gang pretended to collect newspapers and went around ringing doorbells until it found an empty house to break into. No matter how dumb these boys may appear, it is important to remember that they are trained experts and very clever in their field...
Technically, the play is disappointing. The major action, other than Don Juan's death, is the seduction of the girl. But Alonso does this off stage, leaving his readers panting to know just how this Don Juan is so clever with the ladies. The early scenes are loaded with lines which introduce the facts about Don Juan abruptly and in a back-handed way. His supernatural mother slips in, amidst great comforting of his unhappiness, "No man can harm you because you're the son of an angel, but you could end your sorrow yourself." There is no indication...
...getting to be the time of year for recriminations. Masses of undergraduates solemnly march to and from the masses of books from which they are imbibing in the face of clever academic ostentations so soon to be required. Amidst the muffled footsteps and unshaven faces of Lamont a reading period realization regularly grows that the currently popular method of passing courses by cramming is one of the most lamentably inadequate educational devices yet blessed with institutional recognition...