Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reuben Charles) Rolfing of Chicago's Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest piano maker in the U.S.: "People are getting back more & more to wanting to do something for themselves-entertaining themselves." Many piano makers, such as Cincinnati's Baldwin Co., have helped the boom along with smart styling, hard selling, and by making it easy for beginners to learn to play...
Professor A. M. Schlesinger Jr., in his letter to you, has answered his own question. The current Harvard undergraduates are far from "scared." They are just being smart. They do not intend to be bored by, to use Professor Schlesinger's own words, a "second-rate actor and a third-rate novelist." The students are showing intelligence by refusing to waste time on mediocrity who attempt to gain attention by striking radical poses...
Last week Dallas elected 72-year-old Bob Thornton its mayor. Said he: "A dumb man like me has it all over a smart man. Smart man knows how hard it will be. Dumb man walks right into it and gets it done...
...discarding process will not be easy, for Old Bolshevik Molotov, as George Kennan puts it, is "a smart old fox. He has extraordinary qualities of survival, or he wouldn't have lived through the Stalin regime." In Communist eyes, Molotov's preservatives are great ability and slavish loyalty. At a time when internal Soviet necessity demands a double-headed policy of making war through peace, Vyacheslav Molotov is an extremely useful...
...under the leadership of the U.S., the world's biggest wheat exporter, 46 nations signed the first International Wheat Agreement. A big world surplus was keeping wheat prices low, and it seemed both good international policy and smart business to set fixed prices for world wheat sales. Roughly, the agreement protected importing nations by giving them the right to buy fixed quotas of wheat at a ceiling price of $1.80 a bushel. Exporters were protected by a floor of $1.50 a bushel (later reduced to $1.20). Everybody seemed taken care...