Word: acumen
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Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...
...Theatre Guild continued a season of mediocrities last night at the Colonial with "Elizabeth the Queen." It is a regrettable commentary both upon the critical acumen of the public and the sterility of the American stage that such second rate productions can find such consistent favor...
...writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...
...great, early judges were of the opinion that the human mind was incapable of fabricating a false consistency of events. At some point there would appear a physical fact to destroy it. This silent witness . . . was always standing in the background to be called by anyone who had the acumen to discover it." In these 13 criminal cases the silent witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools...
...navies ought to be in some way limited, but how they could not agree. This was regarded as a "victory" for French diplomacy, as the English have always contended that limiting warships automatically limited naval personnel, and that it was silly to talk about limiting sailors separately. With great acumen the French pointed out that if a nation [Germany, for example] were permitted to have an unlimited naval personnel she might, by the subterfuge of en titling her soldiers "sailors," build up an army of unlimited size. Where do we stand? In vain Count von Bernstorff argued for Germany last...