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Word: shrewdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kazan has directed an artfully balanced script (by Dudley Nichols and Philip Dunne) with a heavy poetic atmosphere and shrewd attention to dramatic detail. He has pumped conflict into every scene and sustained the excitement throughout even the talky stretches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...time was ripe for shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit by Franks to Acheson-or will more be gained by "underplaying" it and sending a counselor to his State Department opposite number? After 6½ years' experience in Washington, the Minister is pretty shrewd at pacing and directing the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Out by the Kitchen | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Thirty-five proctors have taken up residence in 15 dormitories in time to offer shrewd insight and old saws on College life to incoming freshmen and to make sure that the men of '53 get their (chaperoned) dates out of the rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proctors Return To Ride Herd on Yard Inhabitants | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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