Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Andover, Phillips Academy's shrewd Headmaster Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with "geese") adopted a collegiate custom by staging his school's first Alumni Day. To Andover's 162-year-old campus, glorious in sunshine and brilliant autumn foliage, came 175 old Andover boys. Oldest were a pair of survivors from the class...
...astute Episcopal Bishop of New York, has always been a leader in the church unity movement. Bishop Manning has his enemies, but those enemies have hardly ever caught him out on a point of theology or canon law. Last fortnight Dr. Manning threw the great weight of his shrewd experience against the "Proposed Concordat" drawn up last year as a means of eventually uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches (TIME...
...stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal was made. The sale was for cash, in which Marquette's chief financial backer, Pittsburgh Capitalist John McKelvy, will have the chief share. It also included a job in TWA's executive line for shrewd "Wink" Kratz...
Another type of bargain-hunting centred about movie companies which sold off on the outbreak of war because they depend on belligerents for as high as 40% of their gross from pictures. Last week, shrewd buying was anticipating new strength in movies on an offsetting increase in U. S. moviehouse attendance...
When the French retreated to the Marne in 1914, their strategy proved shrewd and salutary. For the Polish armies to fall back from the Corridor and East Prussia to a primary defense line from Loruń south through Lódź and Kielce to Cracow, and after that to the angle between the Bug and Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan...