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Word: smarter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there anyone who is really fool enough to think that an appreciable amount of grain will be saved by voluntary sacrifice? I go into the grocery store and there is a cake. I buy that cake because I know that if I don't, my smarter neighbor will, and the poor Italian kids sitting across the table from us will still starve. (All cake is gone by 6 p.m. no matter who buys it.) The problem is one of getting the grain before it becomes cake. We won't eat it only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Ford may or may not be a better car than the new Chevrolet, but there was evidence last week that the new Ford labor policy was much smarter than General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Art of Negotiation I | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Reuther: There is no change. We are smarter. Did you guys hear me on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Finish Fight? | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Never had the fleshy, Falangist fundament of fat Francisco Franco felt a smarter whacking than it got last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Franco on the Spot | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Seven Forward Passes | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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