Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby rats born and raised in cold rooms were smarter than those in hot rooms...
...case of G.G. and R.G. Of these medically anonymous twins, G.G. is known to his friends as "SpeedUp George," R.G. is known as "Lead in the Pants." In the process of living up to his twin brother, who is huskier and a little smarter, G.G. has become a highly sociable live wire, a Mason, a Woodman. He has also achieved a blood pressure of 180 (normal blood pressure: around 140), and has had a ngina pectoris for the last twelve years. (The twins...
...column-inches per page. He cut comic strip widths, reduced the size of standing headlines over regular features, eliminated white space around classified ad items, made other space-saving reductions. As a result, the Journal now prints in 28 to 30 pages what once filled 32, and is cleaner, smarter appearing. Best thing about the Journal job, Farrar says: it was accomplished invisibly. Readers were not irritated by a drastic difference...
Cabman John D. Hertz once refused a cool million for a horse named Reigh Count. This year the Hertzes have their reward: a colt that is faster, smarter and shows promise of being greater than their 1928 Derby winner. He is Count Fleet, Reigh Count's three-year...
...cabaret, the Blue Angel, opened by balding, long-nosed, toothy Herbert Jacoby, ex-secretary to France's imprisoned ex-Premier Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker (see p. 54), for one of the few times in his professional life, was presented with...