Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been exposed. "As T. S. Eliot said to me at lunch . . . ." If you are at all smart you will let it go at that and start looking for mutual acquaintances in Dorchester...
...temporary mainsail has been the Soil Conservation Act, discovered in the New Deal's legal lazaretto by two smart Washington correspondents, Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times and James Russell Wiggins of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
...Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...
...Upset of the week, in which Coach Ossie Solem's young but smart Syracuse eleven bested one of the finest Cornell teams in years, was also distinguished by the most dazzling play of the week. In the third quarter, Syracuse's dusky Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, reputedly the only Hindu footballer in the U. S., caught a pass from his teammate, Olympic Sprinter Marty Glickman, faded back and hurled the ball high over the Cornell tacklers, apparently into space but actually into the waiting hands of the same Marty Glickman, who a few plays later was able to make...
...looks like a deliberate dribble in the picture, but it didn't look that way on the field. . . . I hate to spoil a good story, but they were wrong. I'm not that smart...