Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition here to the introduction of the college system. Yet every one knows that this is not the case. The present writer has seen addressed to the CRIMSON criticisms of the college plan not below the average level of your published correspondence either in literary grace or in logical acumen. These communications were submitted to you in the proper manner, but they never appeared in your columns...
...generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete...
...evening of musical comedy can scarcely be considered to have the stability of judgment necessary for a critic. Yet that Senior, to whom the only distinguishing mark of vacation has been the absence of the morning CRIMSON (advt.) from under the door, fortunately requires only the barest modicum of acumen to realize that "Merry Merry" is far above and beyond the humdrum level of musical comedy average. In this day of striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense of the "bigger." "Merry...
...incurable vulgarity of H. L. Mencken is mixed with a considerable amount of business acumen. . . . He has made his living for years by smart jibes at the common mind. Nothing is easier to write than this form of humor. He is completely alien to America. . . the penny-dreadful of the intelligentsia. . . a professional smart-Aleck...
...Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, founded in Washington two years ago by Philanthropist Robert S. Brookings of St. Louis. The 35 students now at this institution studying for Ph.D.'s and proficiency in statecraft, were admitted as having possessed the following qualifications: disinterested attitude, critical acumen, sense of reality, practical ability, knowledge of literature, writing talent, eloquence. George Eastman, Rochester camera maker, has contributed 20 or more fellowships...