Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
...ready for any emergency. Object of the "futsched Putsch" was not to assassinate Prince von Starhemberg, who had returned empty-handed from Italy and was safely in Vienna, but to seize some of the munitions supposed to be hidden in his castle. It was a local Putsch and any smart Nazi might have guessed there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr as the Government is insisting he do, but he had removed every rifle from his castle knowing that if Chancellor von Schuschnigg should feel uppity enough to attempt...
...Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...
...made liner board for shipping containers, which account for about one-half of Container Corp.'s unit volume. The company now imports some 32,000 tons of kraft pulp annually, mostly from Scandinavia. In the South pulp can be made for $18 a ton from slash pine. To smart President Paepcke this means that his new Florida mill will cut Container's kraft costs by $10 per ton, save the company some $320,000 per year as its own best customer. If President Paepcke can sell the rest of the new mill's output to other kraft...
When the Transvaal began to heave and simmer over the volcanic question of Indian immigration, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-not vet a Mahatma but already a smart agitator-challenged the Government to slippery grips, it was Smuts who had to bear the onus of sending him to jail. When labor troubles invaded the Johannesburg mines, it was Smuts who alienated the workers by ordering out troops, arresting and deporting the labor leaders without trial. It was also Smuts who got most of the criticism, little of the credit, for the. Union of South Africa...