Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost a month since a wave of international consciousness swept over the United States and so aroused the national conscience as to force the administration to abandon an ostensibly imperialistic policy toward Nicaragua. It seemed at the time a signal victory for public sentiment and for a public acumen not blinded by Secretary Kellogg's red flag waving. It also seemed that the Nicaraguans were to be allowed to fight it out among themselves or that some non-partisan steps toward mediation would be taken...
...quite true that many students leave college after one term or one year, never to return. Usually, having found themselves unfit for college work, or uninterested, they enter business, and more often succeed well enough. The loss of four years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses...
Counsel for Lord Rothermere sought to show last week that his great business acumen had caused the value of the shares to spring from £1,600,000 to some £2,800,000 within six months. On this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising...
...should be closed to its influence. Someone--either Mr. Potash or Mr. Perlmutter--once said that the golden rule was "business before pleasure". The aphorism could be expanded to "business before, perhaps after, but certainly not with, pleasure," he dollar kings should have the grace to leave their financial acumen outside of the church, the schoolhouse, the theatre, and the drawing room...
Therefore, M. Leon Blum, fiery leader of the Socialist Party (TIME, Dec. 7, 1925), displayed nought but acumen when he harangued a party caucus as follows last week...