Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Custer Massacre happened in 1876. Avenging troops cleared the Northwest prairie states of Indians, and immigrants trundled in on their Ticonderoga wagons. New country, new customers brought Field, Leiter & Co. new business. The Eastern states were changing into manufactories. Foresight and acumen were needed in all business and, as far as the dry goods business was concerned, John Shedd, who had risen high in the esteem of Field, had these qualities more highly developed than any of his competitors...
...Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway...
...legend concerned with one of these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
...Council Bluffs. He had bought his way into the Illinois Central which Stuyvesant Fish controlled. Now Mr. Fish was a gentleman who tempered empire building with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed all the southerners with whom he had occasion to come in contact. But he made one blunder. He quarreled with Mr. Harriman, was fired...
...stroke was bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...