Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman Heavies: stroke and captain, Henry Harper; 7, Eldred Mowery, Jr.; 6, Hilary Smart; 5, Bob Funkhouser; 4, Lane Barton; 3, Alan Winslow; 2, Allan Johnson; bow, Frank Potter; cox, Dan Paul...
George D. O'Day, John Burton and Doug Danner led the upperclass team, while the two Freshman boats contained Owen C. Torrey, Marshall Taylor, Hilary H. Smart, and David L. Richardson. Smart's boat finished first in its division, white Terrey's ended up second...
Cargill's left-handed thinking and high grain-shipping rates shoehorned it into the boat business in 1937. Smart, mathematics-minded Cargill president, John H. MacMillan Jr., designed his own unconventional low-cost "articulated unit" barge vessel, that looked like four boxes hooked together with springs and cables. When old-line shipyards refused to have anything to do with such a crazy thing, Chris Jensen turned out the unit in an improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet...
...British Army training film, which quietly dramatizes the protracted, silent, sinister contest between a Nazi sniper and a British soldier. The British soldier is as stolid and unheady as a pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft and self-preservation...
...This smart move permanently preserves one of the notable performances of recent years-Paul Lukas' portrayal of Kurt Muller, the mild-looking German engineer who has long been risking his neck in Europe's anti-Nazi underground, but is patronized by his wife's rich Washington family when he visits the U.S. In the film his wife is Bette Davis. Muller's highhanded socialite mother-in-law is Lucile Watson. Donald Woods is her son, who is bursting with warm American optimism when he isn't ogling pretty House Guest Geraldine Fitzgerald...