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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead at all. Fifteen of them had been captured alive. They would not, or could not talk (as earthbound creatures know talking), but one of them obligingly drew a map of the solar system and pointed to the second planet from the sun. Thereupon, at the suggestion of a smart Earthling, all the prisoners were hastily placed in a pressurized chamber filled with carbon dioxide to simulate the atmosphere of Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visitors from Venus | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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