Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naziphile Pampero, there burgeoned last week a crop of paid advertisements announcing a "Plebiscite of Peace." Its 120 founder-signers, among whom patriotic Nacionalistas were sinisterly mingled with notorious Nazionalistas, invited all-&-sundry to sign a monster "Album of Peace" to be ceremoniously presented to shrewd old Vice-President-in-the-Exercise-of-the-Executive-Power Ramón S. Castillo. Doubtless these publicity shenanigans amused that dry-humored politico; but what really pleased him was the more genuine peace plebiscite of recent congressional elections...
Stanford's shrewd President Ray Lyman Wilbur and his trustees were not born yesterday: they know how to take advantage of a trend by going against it. Last week, as liberal arts colleges all over the nation rushed to accelerate the arts of war (mathematics and science). President Wilbur & trustees announced that Stanford, which has never had a liberal arts college, will start one next fall...
...Pagan Poem (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Victor; 6 sides). A tireless champion of U.S. composers turns here to an adopted son: bearded, Alsatian-born Charles Martin Loeffler, the Boston Symphony's assistant concertmaster for 19 years. Loeffler's Debussylike masterpiece is played with shrewd feeling for climax...
...received the Academy Award, and the latter was listed as one of the ten best pictures of the year by the New York critics. Both are based on novels; both deal with coal-mining. But while "How Green Was My Valley" has grossed heavily at the box-office through shrewd advertising based on the appeal of the book and the prestige of the director, John Ford; "The Stars Look Down," an English film directed by Carol Reed, has had to succeed on merit alone, even though it is the better picture. Aside from a week at the Fine Arts...
...boom were an unassuming shark called Galeorhinus zyopterus and a San Francisco fish broker named T. J. ("Tano") Guaragnella. Fishermen had always considered Galeorhinus a piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...