Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jarvis got around. But he shouldn't have gone to New York. New York cops were smarter than the ones in Washington. After he had raped and throttled a white woman in The Bronx, he had taken a wrist watch from her. He gave the watch to a girl, who pawned it. The New York cops found it, found the girl, followed a trail back to Washington, last week arrested Jarvis Catoe...
...this was very funny-or it would have been if a couple of years ago the rest of the anti-Fascist world had been any smarter than Comrade Stalin and comrades...
...which she has transferred the affections once lavished on the deep pink American Youth Congress. << Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, riled by rumors of a race-equality move in State education, settled down to weeding out non-Georgian teachers, declared: "I never did think these foreign professors were smarter than our own Georgians." << King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from...
...were wittier than they were And smarter, too; The CRIME was victorious...
...Army apparently expected smarter rookies to identify a pistol as a gun. According to Webster, a gun is "any portable firearm except a pistol or revolver...