Word: outsmarting
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...metaphysical taste or smell it imparts to the water in its vicinity lures the banana fish, which strikes with lightning rapidity. As the fish flashes at the submerged half of the banana, the fisherman instantly pulls the fruit from the water. Now comes the time when the sportsman must outsmart this denizen...
...Told last week in the National Press Club's monthly sheetlet was a story about some reporters who tried to outsmart the President at a recent Press Club dinner. On the back of a menu they wrote: "I hereby nominate Herbert Bratter [a Washington writer] as Ambassador to the North Pole." Folding the menu so that these words were hidden, they passed it to the President to autograph. When the menu was returned, they discovered that the President had unfolded it, struck out "North," inserted "South," added: "(North Pole already occupied...
...relied upon this system because of his material. He has a good many ball toters of more than average ability, but none who can go places without lots of road-paving. His problem was one of producing a team of average talent but perfectly drilled being able to outsmart a team of "naturals". And so the Crimson eleven has rehearsed its plays until they are executed with Roxy precision, whether it be on an end sweep, linebuck, or pass. The only scores upon which they can safely rely are those hammered out behind smart play execution...
Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and made a pact with Hitler (TIME. Dec. 7). Last week Mr. Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what...
Pious Spaniards have long believed that few if any unbelievers are keen enough to outsmart a Jesuit. Last week their belief became a profound conviction. A Madrid court was asked to believe that in 1931 the Spanish Jesuits sold their $520,000 national headquarters in Madrid for $485 to a pious U. S. sculptor named Edmundo Quatrocchi whose principal achievement was the actual carving on Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies' monument in France commemorating the Battle of the Marne. If this was indeed a sale, the Spanish Republic's subsequent act in confiscating the Jesuit headquarters, under the impression that...