Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill, the Roman Senate tried for centuries to keep republican government alive; the Caesars ended it. Today, at the foot of that hill, in the Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), which runs almost exactly along Rome's ancient city limits, stands a smart red brick house; there'rules the affable Palm-Branch Caesar of Italian Communism. His Communist Party organization is (as in all countries) a state within a state; in Italy, that shadow state happens to be more substantial than the feeble real...
Profit in Panic. "Sly Pedro Gonzalez has another angle. He has heard of smart men buying healthy steers (at panic sale) for 99 pesos, inoculating them with aftosa and selling them to Government agents for 250 pesos, a goodly profit, gracias a Dios. Less enterprising men have smuggled healthy cattle from aftosa-free areas into infected areas and then stood piously by while Nature did the rest...
Added California Schoolmarm Kathryn H. Martin, in the educational magazine Clearing House: "People who are too smart rarely make good teachers [because they] can't understand why other people make so many mistakes. . . . If I didn't remember how I felt about long division, I'd go berserk some day when I see 'there' and 'their' mixed up for the one-millionth time. . . . The most interesting thing about teaching is not what-you already know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would...
Eliot--2b, Shapera, Rosenwald; 3b, Tilchman; p. Crichton; c, Crumrine, Williams; cf, Cady; ss, Bartle; lf, Morgan; lb, Murphy; rf, Greenberg. Dunster--lf, Harwood; p, Steuer; ss, Rich; 3b, Torrey; 2b, Aldrich; lb, Flynn; c, Smart; cf, Murphy; rf, Von Salza...
Dunster-p, Steuer; c, Smart; 1b, Torrey; 2b, Aldrich; ss, Weeks; 3b, Harney; lf, Harwood; cf, Murphy; rf, MacDonald. Adams-c, Russel; lf, Smith; cf, Archambault; rf, Hatton; 1b, Livermore; 3b, Liller; ss, Heath; 2b, Golger; p. Nanaff...