Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting was the same as for the telephone company purchase a few weeks earlier (TIME, Sept. 16). The same Argentine officials crowded the Salón Blanco at Government House, the same newsreel cameras ground away. Juan Perón was present, smart in a grey lounge suit. Then British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper stepped forward to sign his Government's new trade agreement with Argentina...
...University beatmen, Owen C. Torry '47 and Hilary H. Smart '47, both of Dunster House, captured star championship honors of the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association meet at New Haven, Connecticut, Sunday, ended the races with a nine-point lead over their closest rivals...
This is one of the few really smart and effective performances ever put on by British Communists. In occasional local victories, they have always been unnatural, un-British political fauna, consciously out of place, and therefore negligible. If this business somehow signals a change of climate wherein British Communists at last find a home and a purpose, then something really has happened to Britain...
...midway's cautious cooch dancers, or the daredevils in the motorcycle pit. In the Industrial Pavilion, the exhibits spelled out a new era. Typical was Paul Fortier demonstrating farm refrigeration machinery. Until 1942, he had worked for an American company. Then he decided that "French Canadians are as smart as others," and set up shop in a small garage. Already his business, originally capitalized at $4,000, is now worth...
...College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, one of the "cradles of swing," teen-agers danced to Claude Thornhill's sedate, glossy arrangements of Warsaw Concerto, the Nutcracker Suite, and Yours Is My Heart Alone. The Sherman's smart boss Ernie Byfield let the boys play loud after 10 o'clock, but took newspaper ads to say that there would no longer be din with dinner. In Minneapolis, the late Glenn Miller's band, still among the big ten under Tex Beneke's direction, now had twelve strings (Miller's old swing band...