Word: outwitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odds are John C. Robbins '42, John W. Ballantine '42, and Spencer A. Klaw '41 of the CRIMSON will easily outwit nitwits W. Russell Bowie '41, William B. D. Putnam '41, and Elliot Lee Richardson '41 of Harvard's not-so-funny...
...Franklin, Jefferson, John Marshall and Jesse James are also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...
...object of this maneuver was to outwit Adolf Hitler. Large quantities of British paper money arriving in South America, the U. S. and other neutral countries had warned Britain of what was going on. In Poland, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France, before they were conquered, citizens hoarded sterling notes. Hitler had evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting. At any rate he was using British money to finance his war on Britain. Britain's move turned this prized valuta...