Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be less troublesome if not backed by the government. Last week, in a pique, the Prince resigned his nominal title of commander in chief of the Hyderabad army. Later he changed his mind. "Father told me to stay on," he said. "What else can I do?" The smarter advisers of the Nizam, who still boasts the proud title "Faithful Ally of the British Government," know that his best hope of staying on his throne lies in becoming also the faithful though reluctant ally of free India...
...juvenile delinquents of yesterday have become the gangsters of today, and they are much smarter and more dangerous, we are told, than the old gangs used to be. A disguised FBI agent (Mark Stevens) hangs around the hard streets of a large provincial city and gradually works his way into such a gang. His object: to identify those responsible for a chain of thefts and killings...
...typical male moron, Dr. Kennedy reported in Boston last week to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, is a semiskilled worker earning between $35 and $55 a week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child...
...Clocks. Wittenberg, who is 29, expects to go on wrestling for a long time. Says he: "In wrestling, you don't compete against a clock or against a tape measure. And as you begin to slow down, you get smarter." Turn pro? Not Henry Wittenberg. Says he coldly: "I question the authenticity of professional wrestling...
...picture may also appeal to some children; it tells how a horde of anti-mule, glue-factory-minded grownups are foiled by a pro-mule boy (Lon McCallister) and his girl (June Haver). Adult people and horses may resent the film's hee-hawed refrain: that mules are smarter than either of them...