Word: adroit
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...When the football teams of two old and large American universities play each other in such an atmosphere as was evidenced over the last weekend, silence on the part of the college journals is indicative either of supreme callousness or supreme dullness. For no one had to be particularly adroit to realize that there was evident animosity displayed within the Harvard Stadium last Saturday...
...since the War is going well, " the greatest man in the world." For years he has snubbed Sam Raingo politically. Now he needs him to manage the Ministry of Records, which is to say, British propaganda at home and abroad. Over a breakfast in No. 10 Downing St. an adroit bluffing match is won by Sam, who "wangles" a peerage with his portfolio. Then a game begins...
...Humpty-Dumpty world of matter has had a great fall in the past two decades. But all the king's chemists and physicists become annually more adroit at putting Humpty together again, a bigger and better fellow than ever before. Several hundred chemists convened last week in Philadelphia for the Golden Jubilee of the American Chemical Society (TIME, Sept. 13) and it was upon putting-together (synthesis) that much of their talk...
...machinery. The new General Electric Co. which absorbed them (and, soon after, several other competitive and related firms) covered their entire field. Mr. Coffin, perspicacious of the industry's future, obtained control; made himself president. He was able to do this because he was in many respects as adroit a financier as Mr. Morgan and because Mr. Morgan never had a flair for young industries. Besides, in 1892, Mr. Morgan was busy with railroads...
...Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces in idealistic undertakings, has persisted. It is manifest today in the literature of Hope and Understanding that is written about the Citizens of Tomorrow, the ushers of the Era of Good Will, the so-called "new" college students. Urged...