Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Clevelanders who grumble at their smoky, sprawling city's hot and humid summers, and its wet and windy winters, agree that Moses was smart; he returned to Connecticut and never came back to the town site named...
Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...chiefly because he was Communist representative of Zlin in the Czech Parliament. His only previous shoemaking experience was as manager of exports to Turkey for Bata during the war. But his Communist connections came in handy in wangling materials and machines from countries dominated by Russia. And Holy was smart enough to surround himself with old Bata employes...
Death came on cue, in the black hours before dawn. Bravura was there, too. Said the dying President of Chile to his Minister of Justice: "How should I die? On my stomach, on my side, or on my back?" For his War Minister he had a smart salute, then, "Adiós, General...
...under the obligation to give general education to as many as possible, but the professional schools ought not to train more than the profession can absorb. [A glut of lawyers] creates unemployment and frustrated desires. . . . It would be mistaken patriotism to train too many. . . . A disappointed lawyer is just smart enough to make trouble for everybody. He is likely to become a sourbelly and a revolutionary...