Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smarter Now." With his curve snapping and his control excellent, Newcombe shut out the St. Louis Cardinals (6-0), the Pittsburgh Pirates (9-0), then the New York Giants (8-0). He went one more inning against the Boston Braves-for 31 scoreless innings in all-before he let a run cross the plate. At week's end, the New York Giants managed to shell him out of the box, but it was the first time in his last seven starts. His record: w. 15, l. 6. Although everybody has tremendous respect for his curve and control, the secret...
Everyone knows who wins a race between a hare and a tortoise, but who wins a race between two tortoises? Answer: the tortoise with the smarter jockey...
Finding of the well-preserved pieces of mammoth encourages scientists to hope that they will some day find the deep-frozen body of a prehistoric man. But prehistoric men were smarter than the mammoths they hunted, and maybe fewer of them fell into freezing bogs...
...Money won't solve everything," Wriston said. "It wont make our present teachers smarter and it won't end discrimination. What we need is public attention and a change in our values...
...Department of Engineering Sciences has three more projects. Professor Frederick V. Hunt is studying sound in his anechoic chamber, whose walls sponge up over 99 percent of every noise. Professor Howard H. Aiken is building his fourth super-brain calculating machine, faster and smarter than before. Professor Howard W. Emmons is working in mechanics...