Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shrewd Mr. Mellon's lesson in rudimentary protectionists' economics ran somewhat as follows: "Now, U. S., do you know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from...
Probabilities. Shrewd observers give the edge of victory to the following...
...President Roosevelt made him Secretary of State. Then after a bitter skirmish with William Randolph Hearst,† Mr. Root entered his international era. From Venezuela to the Newfoundland fisheries, from the Pan-American Conference to the Hague Court, this shrewd lawyer became the angel of arbitration. He was made head of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization with an income of $10,000,000 to spend for international peace. In 1912 he won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...schools, hospitals, East, North, South, West. No entourage traveling with her, no maid even, no road manager. Just Schumann Heink, taking an upper when she could not get a lower, hater of temperament, lover of her children, lover of soldiers the world over, of corn' beef and cabbage . . . shrewd . . . generous...
...ends as everlasting Smithness, a vegetable condition as happily comfortable as it is unadventurous. Symptomatic of the prevalence of Smithness are the prodigious sales, not only of romantic fiction for vicarious thrills, but of American Tragedies, dismal Main Streets and kindred counter-depressants. This book, which mirrors Smithness with shrewd, quaint brightness, will never have such sales. It is not among the Smiths' failings to stare at themselves in a looking glass, though they do like going to Coney Island and seeing how awful they seem in the exaggerating panels of the "crazyhouse...