Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material in them, but philanthropy is not a business policy to satisfy the average investor and there is, as usual, an excellent reason. Motor car manufactures have considerable stocks of raw materials, and a careful study of the markets by their experts has foretold a slump in these markets. Shrewd business sense has therefore dictated the policy of unloading the present inventory of raw material quickly, and at a loss if need be, in order that a falling market may not catch the manufacturer with a very costly inventory and the prospect of having to make it up for sale...
Senator Harding's running mate is a horse of another color. Equally inconspicuous a few years since, Calvin Coolidge stands forth today as the dominant personality on the Republican ticket. Of ancient New England stock, a shrewd, calculating country lawyer, "Honest Cal" has become in the person of "the silent man on Beacon Hill" a national figure. His telegram to Samuel Gompers, his second inaugural speech, have stamped him as more than an able politician. He has proved himself a vigorous statesman...
...fact that Harvard University has added Frank A. Vanderlip to the staff of its Graduate School of Business Administration, to serve "with no stipend" as lecture on business economics, shows the evolution of college instruction away from the old fundamentals of Greek and Latin. Apparently a shrewd appreciation of student demands has dictated the appointment. At an institution of learning which more and more "prepares" for a Wall Street career, the classroom of the former President of the National City Bank ought to be thronged...
...Ellis Parker Butler were writing "Pigs is Pigs" today, shrewd literary critics would most certainly declare his story to be an allegory characterizing America as the perplexed express-man and strikes as the guinea pigs, multiplying in geometrical progression...