Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite, in the first round. Meantime Omaha's Jesuit-run Creighton University had eliminated the giant skygacks of West Texas State (TIME, Feb. 16) and were in turn eliminated by Coach Uncle Ed Diddle's Western Kentucky State boys, who had already put out the smart metropolitan champs from the City College of New York. Seven of the eight games in the tournament were upsets...
Every Saturday morning they were rewarded with a visit from the smart uniformed Major. . . . He sure was proud of their sacrifices and efforts, and they would never know the thousands of man hours they saved the Army and Navy for fighting service...
...when the last bewildered rookie rolls off the train with his lumpy duffel bag, the division is born. Under the barking of the noncoms it grows from infancy to gangling, slack-kneed adolescence. It marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come...
...manufacturer, of course, calls his "pet retail accounts" to tell them about the approaching curtailment, "of course" adds that if the buyer is smart he will immediately knock down the merchandise manager or the boss if necessary, and get some extra folding money to put into inventories. Then, after more "secret" Washington powwows, the proposed restrictions "become known to even the obscure assistant buyer of The Big Store of Podunk" and manufacturers find themselves "forced into annoying and exasperating off-season production" (e.g., women's fall coat production in January and February was 30% above a year...
Classrooms for the Navy's primary school are studios of Television Station W9XBK, which smart, rich theater chain men John and Barney Balaban (of Balaban & Katz) offered free to the Navy, a week after Pearl Harbor. After 90 days at W9XBK (which continues to televise for Chicago's 200 receivers), Loop sailors will move on to advanced schools near Washington, at Noroton Heights, Conn., or San Francisco...