Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice Holland, director of the National Research Council's division of engineering and industrial research, published his Industrial Explorers (Harper's, $3), describing the work of 19 scientists who lead the industrial research of companies smart enough to hire them...
...Practice, it is apparently the conviction of Author Owen Davis, makes the playwright perfect. Nor is the conviction betrayed in this, the latest of more than 250 Davis dramas, wherein a comparatively improbable situation and an unlikely plot are made to seem funny and exciting by turns, owing to smart dialog and skillful construction...
Second in significance only to the Cheron appointment is the promotion of smart, indispensable Andre Tardieu from his previous portfolio of Public Works to the vastly more important Ministry of Interior. Destiny will yet make him Prime Minister of France...
...foundation of the Kingdom, in 1881, both people and sovereigns have obeyed, until last fortnight, a family of Dictators. The last of these, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano, has now been forced to resign (TIME, Nov. 12); and last week saw the victorious leader of the National Peasant Party, smart Dr. Juliu Maniu, called upon to form a Cabinet...
...Symphonique gave Arthur Honegger's Rugby a successful première. In the U. S., Composer Honegger is famed for his Pacific 231 through which he sniffs and snorts to resemble a giant locomotive. His Rugby, long heralded, is a sound picture of a football match in which smart, broken rhythms tell the struggle of the players, the excitement of the crowd...