Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treating an honest desire for progress as a threat of political domination by a small clique of "Tory Rowers,' a few shrewd politicians were able to sterilize a ringing indictment of the present school system. This indictment, in the form of the comprehensive report by eight professors and seven school superintendents, placed the blame for 'Cambridge's thirty-year-old rut" squarely on Superintendent Tobin. It called for his removal and the reorganization of a fumbling, politically dominated administration. Mr. Tobin sputtered magnificently, but could not refute the charges against him. In desperation, be wondered what were the educational qualifications...
...trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work in the Rockies and Wyeth returned without his fortune...
Michigan's shrewd Coach Fritz Crisler has taken advantage of the unlimited substitution rule. In the first four games of the season, Crisler's team used everyone but the water boy, and averaged 55 points a game...
This ultimate pit of carnival-life degradation fascinates shrewd, up & coming young Stan Carlisle (Tyrone Power), but it takes Stan nearly two hours' playing time to learn that in spite of all his talents he was born to be a Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate...
...leveling a stream of earthy adjectives at the men responsible for Plan E, a system of administering civic duties through an appointed city manager, a few shrewd politicians seek to divert attention from both their own incompetence and the achievements of Plan E. Cries of "political domination by a bunch of Tory Rowers" cannot entirely cloud the record. Over a six year period the proponents of Plan E have accomplished a consolidation of four city departments with resultant economies, four playgrounds have been rebuilt and eight more are under construction, the public libraries received 40,000 new books...