Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Played with steel studded wooden balls as big as baseballs. The player bowls his first ball (with an underhand, twisting throw) toward a tiny object ball. His opponent strives to bowl nearer the object ball, by shrewd control or oftener by knocking the enemy away...
...father of the hero Hank who in portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessic Hill, Radcliffe '30, in the other juvenile lead. In the character of Jessic Thayer, a young school mistress, she is woed by Hank Morgan. Francis Small, Radcliffe '28, takes the part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the West...
...Shrewd director of The Green Hat, Saturday's Children, etc., etc.; husband of Katharine Cornell...
...probabilities are that the Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
...intention of prolonging the trial until the Superintendent's term expires in February. "In the meantime Chicago has no Superintendent of Schools. The President of the Board has usurped the Superintendent's powers, and the schools are being run without the professional direction which the law requires." Shrewd, they added a paragraph which their rambunctious Mayor William Hale Thompson would understand: "We have become convinced that the present situation is a real crisis. It concerns a million parents -all voters-with enough power to enforce any demands they decide must be made to safeguard their children...