Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will never be happy until he has proved that he is at least as smart as nature. One thing he would like to show the world is that he can reproduce himself scientifically. Artificial insemination was one step. He took another step last week, with the first recorded fertilization of a human ovum outside the mother's body. In Science last week Harvard Gynecologist John Rock and his assistant, Miriam F. Menkin, reported this scientific affront to womanhood. In a small watch glass, the two researchers put a human egg, cut from a woman's ovary. Next they...
...Smart, suave Juan Terry Trippe last week stirred the aviation industry with exciting news. Out of the hangar he wheeled Pan American Airways' grandiose postwar plans. Come war's end-and Civil Aeronautics Board approval-Pan Am plans to spend some $52,000,000 to expand its Latin American routes. And Juan Trippe stirred the earth-bound citizenry with news: Pan Am expects to slash flying time from the U.S. to Latin America by approximately two-thirds and will cut fares even below the present steamship rates. Examples: the fare from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro will...
...with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...
Whichever it was, by this week the American generals had plenty of cause for satisfaction. Their troops had broken out of the Normandy peninsula on the west, fought a smart, bold battle...
...That apparent casualness and man-to-man friendliness which rather appalled our disciplinarians at home disappears. Commands are tersely given and tersely acknowledged with an immediate 'Yes, sir,' and a smart salute. All trace of casualness evaporates. These men go to it with the snap of Guardsmen...