Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warren, Pa. (pop. 14,500) is overruling pedagogues who insist that five is the age to start school. In the first such community-wide experiment, Warren schools will enroll smart tots aged three years and eight months...
...modern listener, Composer Rome's lyrics and music remain smart, catchy and almost unfailingly appealing-but sometimes curiously askew-as if they belonged not only to a different generation but to a different age. Such songs as One Big Union for Two and It's Better with a Union Man ("Always be upon your guard/ Demand to see a union card") are almost echoes of history-as is Rome's jazzy Doing the Reactionary...
Among West Coast educators, the answer is simple. In a state long dominated by huge public colleges. Occidental has parlayed smallness. smart leadership and intellectual freedom into a warm, friendly spirit, first-rate teaching, and a taste for the experimental. Once considered to be a preserve for academically delicate youth from patrician Pasadena, Oxy has in fact long been especially strong in history, diplomacy and world affairs. It installed the first nuclear reactor (in 1958) for undergraduate teaching in Southern California, has such high pre-med standards that graduates are virtually assured of acceptance in medical schools of their choice...
...Smart Whip. Within a year of his election he was promoted to assistant whip, one of a band of Commons corporals charged with enforcing party discipline. Most ambitious young politicians shun the role, since whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until...
...Mademoiselle," a magazine for the smart young woman, has a bisexual appeal this week. For the second straight year is editors have invited the men of the Harvard Lampoon to publish a parody issue. The result, mad, if not very moiselle is now available at the newstands...