Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other out of the race. All told, the Giants made only 742 runs all season. The team has the league's leading home run hitter in Melvin Ott and Manager Terry is a dependable batter but most of its games have been won by tight fielding and smart pitching. If one run was often enough to beat the Giants, one run was even more often enough to win for them. Trying to pick the World Series winner last week, baseball experts quickly boiled it down to a question of whether Giant pitching-by Hubbell, Schumacher and Fitzsimmons- could...
First Esquire feeler into syndication came two years ago when Publisher David A. Smart sold a fashion feature, produced by Esquire artists, to 100 papers. This year, with newspaper advertising revenues rising, smart Mr. Smart figured that it would be a good time to offer papers some other features as well. Last July Esquire Features, Inc. was quietly formed in Chicago, Esquire's home town. From the Chicago News went able, owlish Howard Denby to be the new syndicate's vice president and editor. Quickly Mr. Denby allied the Esquire syndicate with the News by arranging...
...institutional series began 28 years ago in the day of the late Theodore N. Vail, first president of the Bell System. Though a friend & contemporary of all the economic buccaneers of the late 19th Century, Theodore Vail was smart enough to see that a new day was dawning. Squarely he faced the fact that A. T. & T. was a monopoly but boldly set out to convince the public that a monopoly, at least in the telephone business, was a good thing. U. S. industry has grown far more monopolistic than it was in the trust-busting era in which...
...flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave...
Nine Days a Queen has the qualities cinemaddicts have learned to expect from British historical studies: smart writing, fine playing, meticulous setting and casting, an august reverence for Empire. U. S. audiences, whether they have read English history or not, will have some idea of it after they have seen John Knox (John Laurie) preaching in Whitehall Palace yard; Edward Seymour (Felix Aylmer) passing sentence on his brother Thomas (Leslie Perrins) ; the pompous details of a 16th Century beheading...