Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this has long added up to lots of old-fashioned fun for Montrealers. But Montreal, like the rest of Canada, has been smart enough to see that fun can also be big business. So this winter, the first big postwar season, Canada's hundreds of winter resorts are spending thousands of dollars to promote winter sports. For those who wanted them, there is still snowshoeing, sleigh and dog-team rides and tobogganing. But the real frost king is the ski business...
Then he moved to Chicago. In Prohibition days, Chicago was easy pickings for a smart kid from Brooklyn...
...Britain, it is both smart and thrifty to honeymoon at the Harvard Hospital,* near Salisbury. There, snuffling cheerfully last week in the cause of Science, Newlyweds Darlig & Sweed were serving with other volunteers as guinea pigs in a study of the common cold...
...Chilean peso is worth 4?. A smart operator once bought a 30,000 peso stack, of chips (worth $1,200) at Viña, flew to Montevideo where a casino used identical chips, cashed them for 30,000 Uruguayan pesos-worth...
...Smart rightists-the tough, gutter-smart Sinarquistas and the smooth, book-smart Action Nationalistas-have made the most of it. They have jumped on the bandwagon, talked loudly about morality in government, have urged more popular participation in civic affairs. Presumably they have also egged on at least some of the public uprisings. In Oaxaca last week the crowd uncovered when orators spoke the name of Pornrio Diaz, president-dictator (with a four-year break) from 1877 to 1911, and to many Mexicans a symbol of reaction and exploitation...