Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...childhood he was called simply Mustafa, having like most Turks under the Sultanate no family name. His mathematics teacher called this smart pupil Kemal, meaning "Perfection." In the Army he rose to the rank of Pasha...
Paradoxically the Vishinsky ruling did not seem last week to cramp the electioneering style of the Russian clergy. It appeared from stories in the Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week...
...Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt the studios and buy up control...
...vocabulary of the children is small and poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie the happy-go-lucky, and Marie (smallest) the sympathetic...
...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...