Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak in the scholastic sense, with authority, but they might, as they have done before, still speak with intelligence. It is too bad that professorial geniuses must die, if Professor Wiener's argument is good, but one notices, in looking through a thousand years, that others, and even smarter, come along to fill their shoes...
...Mycroft Holmes, a member of the Diogenes Club and a mysterious but invaluable attache at the Foreign Office, was even smarter than Sherlock, whom he assisted in "The Greek Interpreter...
...pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays...
...approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor Bovard is probably Paul Y. Anderson, once the paper's East St. Louis correspondent, whose race riot investigations in 1917 started him on his way up. Smarter than his foppish attire would suggest, he is particularly able on the crusade type of story. Many of the crucial questions asked witnesses in the second Oil Scandal investigation (1927-28) were first written down on slips of paper by Anderson and then passed along to the less alert Senate...
...Smarter than Robert Moses Grove, who depends almost entirely on throwing the ball so fast that batters cannot see it, Yankee Gomez is able to alternate his favorite pitch, a fast ball, with comprehensive curves. He throws a baseball faster and behaves less strangely than the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean, who amuses himself on hot days by lighting a little fire in front of the bench and pretending to be an Indian, who is so popular that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy...