Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Astute Crooks. People say crooks are mentally deficient. Never believe it. Convicts of the "lowest" criminal type were given the Army intelligence tests and they passed far above average. Crime is a business for shrewd men. To stop it, make crime unprofitable and shrewd men will stay honest. ?Manager James H. Hepbron, Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission...
...away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives of two young Jews, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold; Mr. Hays has defended the civil right of many...
Where does Old England stand as the New Year opens? The question is best answered in terms of her great men. As the year closed a volume,* well spiced yet sound and seasoned, was set on the world's book shelf. Therein that shrewd and keenly discerning British editor emeritus, Alfred G. Gardiner, has sketched the great men of his country, and several others, in a style brilliantly quotable. Quotations...
Next day penny "spilliwobbles" sold like hot cross buns on Good Friday. Shrewd, the makers of the "spilliwobble" promptly brought out a de luxe priced model for rich "spilliwobblers" priced at one guinea...
...would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal. The new departure was presumably an evidence of Phi Beta Kappa's intention, announced during its recent endowment drive, to take an active...