Word: smartness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...awarded degrees Magna cum Laude are Theodore S. Baer '44 (Economics)--with highest honors, Marvin A. Finkelstein '47 (Government), George R. Hooper '45 (Economics), Robert L. Koehl '44 (History), Roger B. Lazerus '46 (History), Raymond R. Schiff '47 (Physics), Charles G. Sellers, Jr. '45 (History and Literature), Louis E. Smart, Jr. '45 (Economics), and Francis L. Wiener '47 (History and Literature...
Dunster--p., Ames; c., Smart; 1b., Flynn; 2b., Aldrich; s.s., Steven; 3b., Torrey; r.f., Lewis; c.f., Murphy; l.f., Morgan; s.s., Rich. Lowell--p., Brown; c., Bowditch; 1b., Broad; 2b., Silver; s.s., Gardner; 3b., Guild; l.f., Spear; c.f., Richardson; c.f., Lane; r.f., Wales, Heinrichs...
Sometimes, he does not even seem to like the Dodgers; he hurt rather than helped three promising players by tongue-lashings that shook their confidence; last season, Little Vic Lombardi hardly dared pitch a ball without looking to the dugout for Leo's nod. Leo's smart assistant, Coach Chuck Dressen, now with the Yankees, spent much of his time reinflating egos. (Some belittlers, exaggerating Dressen's importance, think the Dodgers won't be the same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting...
Burnham, the ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite professor who has recently been canonized by Time-Life, is a shrewder, slicker model of this type (top of his Princeton class, always a sharp dresser); his book is smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge...
...detail of the deal is that Argentina, which uses only 3,000 tons of tin a year, has no smelter to process the ore. Presumably Argentina will have it smelted in England. But what would she do with the surplus over her own needs? It might be smart business to sell it to the U.S.-at a fancy profit...