Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as no one rides on No. 99, few get inside "Uncle Dan's" white stucco house, which hides behind trees in Baltimore's smart Roland Park. There he lives with his wife and his two orphaned grandchildren, whose parents died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. He plays his violin occasionally, is a wretched golfer. Like many a railroad man, he goes to the office on Sundays. Like many railroad children, his grandsons like to go along, too. He owns the farm where he was born, farms it. He belongs to the Unitarian Church, drinks a little, smokes...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...born singly. The same study, carried out by Paul Wilson, research assistant, showed that older women have twins oftener than young mothers, that twins have twin children no more frequently than regularly born parents. Comforting to twins was the scotching of the old scorn that twins are not as smart as other people...
...rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
Besides Pilot Hinkler's evident ability as a distance flyer and navigator. Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...