Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipped it into a trunk, carried it on his travels until his death in 1914. It then went to his daughter Viola, who paid even less attention to it than he had. Recently, friends urged her to find out its worth. She took it to Revillon Fréres, smart Manhattan furriers, who this week began exhibiting the piece for Fifth Avenue window-gazers. Unofficial appraisal: intrinsic value-under $10; possible rarity value...
Fewer murders are solved in the brains of super-detectives than by surgeons at their autopsy tables. The small band of U. S. doctors who occupy the point of contact between medicine and the law must be not only smart but versatile. Granted that they should be well-grounded in medicine, surgery and autopsy technique, they must also know special tests for blood and other stains, be familiar with firearms and the effects on human tissues of bullets and powder; with botany (to identify plant dusts on clothing, vegetable fibres and plant seeds in stomachs); with entomology (because insect infestation...
...Marshall Field retail business lost money only once, in 1932, that what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...
Belmont Hill spares: Ellis, Smart, Byron, Loomis, Porter...
...only thing I don't like about TIME is the way it is written. What I mean by this is the words you use. All of them are so long you don't seem to take consideration of kids like me who aren't quite as smart...