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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police made a spectacular haul in Milan's O.M. (Officine Mecchaniche) automotive plant. Inside an old, sealed air-raid shelter were a 45-mm. mortar, five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Arsenal of Terror | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

What a commentary upon the American way of life, that this smart-aleck journalist can "make or break" (fortunately, only in Chicago) men & women of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...stayed away for 75 days and collected every nickel of his pay. Others came in snarling drunk. Regular employees began goofing off worse than ever, formed "50-50 Clubs" with the "temps," to cover up and split their $1.42 hourly pay. During the two-week Christmas rush, a smart checker could make as much as $5,000 by forgetting to mark down the absentees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Through Slush & Mire | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Small Hours (by George S. Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath; produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Across the Wide Ohio. The Central also was smart enough to spot an able lawyer in Sangamon County's Abe Lincoln. In 1855, for $10 each, he defended 15 claims against the railroad. The following year he won its most important case-a tax suit-and collected a $5,000 fee, the biggest he ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Mid-America's Main Line | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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