Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Juniors are returning, Graham Spring, substitute center, Ray Lavietes, a light, fast, and smart substitute forward, and James Robinson, who has been used as general utility man. The returning Sophomore contingent is especially strong, however, containing as it does the five men who started against Yale in their Freshman year. Of these, outstanding in the public eye this year have been long Bill Gray, the tall center and renowned humorist and clown, and Leavitt (Levi) White, captain of his Freshman team, and a fast and accurate-shooting forward, who possesses the rare ability of being able to keep...
...objection to candid camera pictures having news value, but it does seem common of you to waste three pages showing off how smart you are. It reminds me of a boy with a new air rifle...
Calling him "a smart promoter'' and letting it go at that does scant justice to the pertinacious Kentuckian, Euclid M. Covington, who got the idea for This Week some four or five years ago and stuck with it despite discouragement, depression, and doleful predictions of the doubting Thomases...
...charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud. But then there was no jury for that smart little lawyer to work on. He got a real setback in 1929 when, despite tears and eloquence, a jury convicted Fall of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Mr. Doheny. But five months later Lawyer Hogan triumphantly vindicated himself by persuading another jury that what was a bribe as accepted...
Breeder Prentice bought his first bull two decades ago. A handsome, impeccably pedigreed creature, it cost Breeder Prentice $10,000 and turned out to be sterile. That was probably the first come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn...