Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today he teaches 1,500-odd students from 46 States and six foreign countries not only how to ride a horse but how to make up their faces, talk, dress, take dictation, be smart consumers. Because one of woman's most important activities is getting on with men, Stephens sees that its girls meet boys at frequent intervals...
...bald question: "Do you . . . favor compulsory health insurance [in New York State]?" Exactly how members were divided no one ventured to predict, but certain it was that the opposition was well organized. 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, who was quick to capitalize on the American Medical Association's opposition to compulsory health insurance, which the New Deal fundamentally endorses. Fancy leaflets, magazines and reprints, some of them issued under the name of the Medical Society of the State...
...Smart, aggressive General Arnold foresees that with the Air Corps about to be trebled in size and importance, the Army, to get full value from its airmen in the next war, may in effect have to rebuild itself around its air service. Deliberate, thoughtful General Craig gravely doubts that the U. S. Army needs an Air Corps of Roosevelt dimensions. Furthermore, he believes that whatever its size the Air Corps should continue to be a subordinate arm, supplementing the all-important Infantry...
...them with a $45 radio (which he could buy in quantities for $25 apiece) ; 2) broadcast to them a rousing Sunday morning sermon, a good choir program; 3) ask in return only such donations as they care to send him. From Indianapolis for the past five years, a smart businessman named E. (for Emmett) Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station WLW, he counted as his own 330 radio-equipped churches, each with an average 220 Sunday listeners, in the rural districts of Kentucky, Indiana...
When Canada finally found several years ago that it needed an airline to speed mail and passengers between cities in its best populated strip just north of the U. S. border, its smart decision was that it would do no experimenting, would cash in instead on what U. S. airlines had learned, little by little, the hard way. Beyond its own necessity for the transcontinental route, it had the added responsibility of hooking up its centres with Imperial Airways' transatlantic service scheduled for opening this summer...