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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...understand how people can feel miffed and unhappy about this year's NCAA choices, with the committee displaying such a fine example of theoretical dependence. Make no mistake about it--theory makes Asa a smart boy, and definitely requires no practicality whatsoever...

Author: By David W. Cudheam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/10/1953 | See Source »

Also, she was smart, knew Washington and the intricacies of bureaucracy from a hitch in the U.S. Information Service, and had a flair for leadership. She helped set up the Marine Corps' first boot camp for women, at Hunter College, New York. After that she commanded a battalion, and served on the staff of the general in command at Quantico. When the war ended, she was 29 years old, a major, and was commanding 2,600 lady marines (as many as are on active duty in the whole corps today) at the Marine Air Station at Cherry Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Youngest & Prettiest | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Finished. All of this was a sudden and smart rebuff for the man who had twisted the tail of the British lion, stood steadfast against the pleadings of the mighty U.S., snatched Iran's caviar out of the mouths of the big Russians and made all Persia his flying carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Our Shah or Death! | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...first move outside New York and its suburbs for Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor, bossed by go-getting Dorothy Shaver. It is just the beginning of an expansion program in which Retailer Shaver hopes to "blow perfume across the nation." She is invading the territory of another smart woman operator: Beatrice Fox Auerbach, 65, who has made her G. Fox & Co. Hartford's biggest store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Connecticut Invasion | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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