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Word: smartest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While working as a longshoreman he earned his first degree--at a school for masseurs--and was practicing both trades when the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940. "It was then that I made the smartest move of my life," Wolpe recalls. "I had read Mein Kampf and knew I didn't stand a chance of escaping, so I volunteered for a German labor battalion. They never suspected that...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/31/1951 | See Source »

...Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also took a jet plane ride arranged by U.S.A.F. Colonel H. A. Schmid, who, gurgled Penny, was "the smartest and the best-looking and the youngest colonel I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Girl Meets Boys | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Just Turn on the Radio." Old Barnstormer Joe Silverthorne, now 40, knows all the tricks; he learned them from one of the smartest air operators ever to hit Central America. Back in 1934, after a hitch in the U.S. Navy, Joe Silverthorne became a crew chief for New Zealand-born Lowell Yerex's TACA airline. Brassy and hardfisted, he soon caught the eye of Yerex, who made him his personal bodyguard and general handyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...during his tenure at Amherst that Jordan realized the value of hiring enthusiastic assistants. His present staff includes three extremely able men, plus a first-class trainer, and his backfield coach is considered one of the smartest assistants in the country...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Jordan Forms Foundations For Future Football Surge | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...G.O.P. candidates all over the U.S. than all other Senators combined, the issue of Reds in Government had waned (except in Joe McCarthy's home state), and some Republicans were nervously wondering whether it might yet boomerang. Rising prices and taxes bothered most people, but not even the smartest politicians could make out whom the voters blamed. The Republicans were left with the traditional war cry of opposition: "Throw the rascals out." The Democrats, pointing to high farm prices, wages & profits, warned against changing horses, and (as they have for 18 years) ran against Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Inscrutable Independent | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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