Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessity of adequate leadership. ("Young officers are the broad foundation on which our war army must be built.") He weeded out incompetents. He lectured on the fundamentals of warfare, knowing that he had to get as many men as nearly ready as he could. And he acquired a smart, towering, young lieutenant colonel as his deputy, Mark Wayne Clark, who was to pave the way for the African invasion...
...even care if it grows." She smacks down California: "It reminds me of a Shubert production." Unlike Actress Cornell, who has never made a movie, Actress Gordon has made several (The Edge of Darkness, Abe Lincoln in Illinois). Hollywood says she is snooty. Everyone says she is smart...
Coatesville, Pa. is a quiet little town of narrow streets, dozens of musty, old-fashioned saloons and only one real claim to fame: Lukens Steel Co., a small, smart, fast-growing outfit which is now one of the largest U.S. makers of armor plate. Last week Lukens announced it had quadrupled plate output in the year ended Oct. 10, turned out enough armor for a dozen warships (battleships, cruisers, carriers) and hundreds of army tanks to boot...
...urgently needed power of discrimination between the excellence of some contemporary authors, the hearty good intentions of others, and the mere jingoistic opportunism of still others. In Writers in Crisis ($3) Maxwell Geismar acutely dissects the U.S. writers of the past two decades, but keeps up a kind of smart patter which is apt to put off the more intelligent of his readers...
Cornelius Lansing '45, Richard H. MacNeal '44, Walter F. Rogers, Jr. '43, Lionel A. Schwartz '43, Donald H. Shively '44, Robert A. Shwitzer '45, Henry B. Silsbee '43, Louis E. Smart '45, Donald F. Waterman '43, Herbert M. Weiner '43, Gerald H. Whipple '43, Cedric H. Whitman ocC, Konrad P. Wise '45, Leonard Wolsky '44, John A. Wood...