Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took about ten minutes for a smart young Manhattan art director named Reeves Lewenthal to sell his scheme to Cinema Producer Walter Wanger...
...smart Journalist Jacques Tremoulet and Radio-Manufacturer Leon Kierkowsky built a radio station at Toulouse in southern France, gradually formed an imposing radio chain. As insurance against unfavorable regulation by the French Government, in 1935 they began building Radio Andorra. In the face of heated opposition from Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies, the pair went calmly ahead with the installation without official authorization. They finally finagled from France permission to broadcast, but were allocated no wave length on which to operate. Not to be stopped by such a triviality, in 1938 they blithely began experimental sending...
...That smart tough dumpy little man, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, knows how to face facts. Last week he faced the big fact hitherto ignored by the British Government: what Great Britain needs most is airplanes...
...into a dead mike. The two companies had a known audience of only 3,000 licensed radiowners. The Government of India stepped in, in 1930 bought the two stations, established All-India Radio (AIR). Two years later BBC began broadcasting its Empire programs to India and in 1935 sent smart Lionel Fielden out to make India more radio-minded...
...year, "Break Up the Yankees" has been baseball's war cry. Too smart, too smooth, too powerful, the "greatest machine in the history of baseball" made other clubs in the American League look like Model Ts racing a Miller Special. Last week the question might have been raised: Is New York still in the league?*The mighty Yankees, odds-on favorites to win their league pennant for the fifth year in a row, chugged along in last place-with only seven victories in 21 games. They had not broken up, but they had, at least temporarily, broken down...