Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very little was said about John Consumer, who is the chief beneficiary of the lower prices made possible by mass buying. Smart, efficient independent merchants, able to offer quality and service which chains cannot afford to provide, do not worry about chain-store competition. But merchants of this type are rare. And while the ethics of chain-store purchasing are certainly elastic, the average storekeeper merely wants his competitive position restored without improving his merchandising methods-at the consumer's expense...
Proud are the Knapps that Roger never failed in school, that he is smart in mathematics. The family have not decided whether to send him to Temple University in Philadelphia or to Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass. Since he prefers exercise to study they agree that, like Professor Rogers, he should become a teacher of physical education...
...establishing the University of Chicago's famed New Plan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930 et seq.) prodigious President Robert Maynard Hutchins left the gates wide open to prodigies inclined to step up the academic pace. Smart students may receive their degrees as soon as they are able to pass examinations...
Speaking on civil liberties before a convocation sponsored by the Chicago Congregational Union last week, smart President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago bestowed his approval upon teachers' oath laws-provided parents, cinema stars and radio entertainers are also required to swear allegiance to the U. S. Constitution...
...Broadway lawyer who has accidentally killed his mistress sets to work to cover up his tracks. So smart is he that he turns the tables on himself...