Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman has taken five or more cuts in a term without making them up, he must take one six-week exercise course the following year. But if he has failed both terms, a 12-week schedule awaits him. "But this seldom happens," Parker says; "most boys are smart enough not to make the same mistake twice...
...proposed nine-man slate of Ward directors (the first three: Wolfson himself; Robert Black president of the White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced to choose between his $50,000-a-year...
...motel boom shows little sign of slowing down. Around the U.S. last week, some 900 newer and bigger motels were either under construction or in the planning stage. Yet the motelman, eyeing peak auto output and rising tourism, sees nothing but a happy future for the smart operator. Says Seattle's Frank Seal, owner of a 55-room motel that he built in 1947 for $92,200 and now values at nearly $400,000: "It just isn't for sale. This is just too good a thing not to hold...
...stupid about this." If the Democrats do not pass a tax cut this year, said Boggs, the Republicans will surely do so in the election year of 1956. "Anybody who does not think so," cried he, "is just wrong. Let's be smart and beat them to it." Sam Rayburn, sitting with the committee, listened for two hours, then gave the go-ahead. Rayburn was smarting because his party had produced most of the votes for the reciprocal trade bill and the nation's headlines had given Ike the credit. The Ways and Means Committee approved...
Each horse has yet to run a race of more than a mile-and the Flamingo is a mile and an eighth. Most of the smart money has already decided that Nashua has the stamina, the Boston Doge is a front runner who will fade in the last long furlong. To most of the paddock prophets it looked like a lock. "But don't forget," one of them hedged, "once, they even beat...