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Word: smartest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitive approach to food This writer is the smartest For Clementine's not merely good She's both gourmet and artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnist at the Table | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Whatever Oveta does, she can be depended upon to do it thoroughly. When a reporter asked Will Hobby if he didn't think his wife was just about the smartest member of the Cabinet, the governor gave a characteristic reply: " 'Course she is." he said. "But if she weren't, she'd have them thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...marrying Radcliffe women, McGeorge Bundy, professor of Government, called it "an excellent idea. I married one of the Radcliffe teaching staff myself." And Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, recalled, "half a dozen girls used to marry their professors." He attributed this to the fact that "some of the smartest girls were also the most beautiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Cliffe Girl: An Instructor's View | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...Church stepped in again. This time it was her turn to do a missionary stint in Hawaii. Benson enrolled in Brigham Young University, where he matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Apostle at Work | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Labor. Before election last November labor-union leaders refused to think of anything less than outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The captains of industry were generally at the other pole. By last week, Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin had some of the smartest and toughest eggs in labor and industry (e.g., the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Big Coal's Harry Moses, Big Steel's Ben Moreell) ready to sit down together to study amendments. The Administration hoped-perhaps too optimistically-to get agreement on labor policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The First Month | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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