Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smart Speaker Hitler twisted history to suit his argument...
...interests of truth, accuracy and fair play, may I ask you please to publish a correction in TIME of a misstatement of fact made on p. 57 of the March 20 issue? [TIME said: "For the last few months Manhattan physicians have been bombarded with propaganda drawn up by smart Publicist Edward Bernays, financed by anti-New Dealer Frank Gannett. . . ."-ED.] We have not been in any way associated with Mr. Gannett in the matter referred...
...shares of stock) are always wrong-when they buy, the market goes down; when they sell, it goes up. Last week the first comprehensive survey of odd-lot trading-made by the Brookings Institution under the direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends. Other findings: > Since 1920 the average odd-lot trader has bought 106 shares...
...Whalen vanity as well as the Whalen dominance, all fair publicity releases go out in his name alone. He personally arranged and signed most of the major contracts, hired most of the important employes. His salary is supposed to be $100,000 and he earns it with such smart stunts as the commercial tie-ups he arranged for the fair. He has licensed the trylon & perisphere design for use on some 25,000 products-wallpaper, jewelry, furniture, cameras, rugs, etc.-at a royalty of 3 to 10% of the wholesale price of such articles sold. This has already produced...
Wright moved East, wrote books and criticism, grew a beard, affected a monocle. He went to work for The Smart Set, a sort of pretentious pulp, became its editor and transformed it into what Critic Burton Rascoe called "the most memorable, the most audacious, the best edited, and the best remembered of any magazine ever published on this continent...