Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McDonald Observatory, probably among the Davis Mountains in Jeff Davis County, Tex. Chicago's smart President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Texas' prudent President Harry Yandell Benedict made the deal. Texas will pay for the telescope, buildings, maintenance, and publications. Chicago will pay salaries of the. astronomical staff and will provide special working paraphernalia, such as photographic materials. Director of new McDonald and old Yerkes Observatories is Russian-born-&-educated Dr. Otto Struve, 35, astrophysicist, who last July succeeded his chief, blind Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, as director of Yerkes...
Livest Lobby, The significance of a Legion declaration for the Bonus lies in the fact that it will unleash upon Congress the most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat...
...step. . . ." Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines, liqueurs and cigars from Acker, Merrall & Condit. Its wholesale tobacco business was sold to Faber, Coe & Greggs...
Geography, physical and political, has never been made a very exciting subject in school. Smart Hendrik Willem Van Loon makes it exciting by taking it out of school and glorifying it. He is well-advised in having as publishers smart Simon & Schuster, high-pressure popularizers. Written in Van Loon's familiar, not to say impertinent style, as if he were talking to children but hoped to be overheard by grownups, the 525 pages are thickly plummed with sketches and maps, many of them in bright colors. The book's jacket conceals a gaily inaccurate map of the world, "suitable...
...Order of Moose in 1906 with a contract that gave him all initiation fees for his promotion work. The order's orphanage at Mooseheart, Ill. was his special charity. When he became Secretary of Labor in 1921, he talked Moose to all- comers, signed up Senators and Congressmen. Smart politicians took care to join the Secretary's order when they wanted favors at the Labor Department. When Moose Davis resigned from the Cabinet in 1930 to take a Senate seat, he sold his promotion contract to other members of the order for a handsome profit. Last week...