Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recognized with unerring British Parliamentary instinct that Prime Minister MacDonald's declaration winding up the Second Indian Round Table Conference with vague, conciliatory talk of a Third Conference and greater freedom for India, was in fact a move to keep restive India quiet and hitched to the chariot of Empire as long as possible...
...Republic a knowledge and an insight that is particularly grateful in a foreigner. Here Washington appears, not as a political genius, but as a symbol of unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten practicality to use as a leaven for the political dough of Hamilton and Adams...
...square accounts. Together they had developed the germ of the plane-per-hour service. If they could start such a line in the East, they might compete with Eastern Air Transport which, like T. A. T., was one of the Curtiss-Keys group. They approached the Ludingtons, whose sporting instinct was aroused. The Ludingtons found the money, told the flyers to go ahead. The success of the venture hinged upon these factors: 1) low-priced equipment; 2) frequency of schedule, to reduce over head and to suit the service to the needs of the passenger; 3) short distance, to reduce...
...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...
...beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements are due to the heat of the sun. They are thermotropic...