Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourteen million schoolchildren," pleaded Dr. Follick, "are wasting their time over [the old] spelling." (One hundred fifty "fed-up" schoolboys wrote in to cry "hear, hear!") A simpler English comprehensible to foreigners, he went on, would be of inestimable value to international relations. Tory M.P. Christopher Hollis made a shrewd comment on this motion. Said Hollis: "I do not think we should like Mr. Molotov any better if we understood everything he said...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
Last week the company struck a shrewd blow at filtración. Under a new plan, the conductors (many of whom are women) were required to hand out a ticket for each fare received. When a passenger had collected 25 tickets, he would turn them in for a numbered "gift certificate." Holders of each month's lucky numbers would win: a $15,000 house, six refrigerators, six console radios, six washing machines, six bicycles, 99 table radios, 99 pairs of shoes, 700 towel sets and-just to keep the gambling wheel spinning-2,277 tickets in the National Lottery...
...almost two years Novelist John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...
Momentarily, Coaltown had stolen the thunder of his famed stablemate, Citation, who was in his stall convalescing from an ankle ailment. But one man, shrewd Ben Jones, insisted that Coaltown still belonged in Citation's shadow. Said Trainer Ben, who knows all there is to know about both horses: "Citation would have whipped him if he had been in there . . . Citation can catch any horse...