Word: shrewdness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neighboring Arnold, Duke of Guelders. In time, she became vain, violent and overweening. Eventually, with her son, she conspired against her husband. But though the manuscript illuminations speak toward a more secular age, they apply medieval alchemy to make gentle nature glitter with lasting fire. The Cleves master was shrewd but also sensitive, and his work can stir souls. Perhaps Catherine herself was the only one not mindful enough of her Book of Hours...
Dave Dooley will move up to the first foil position, and he will be followed by Tom Musliner and Dan Issacson. Captain Jon Kolb will lead the sabre men, and he is expected to live up to his reputation for shrewd, fast fencing...
After the election, Roosevelt appointed Kennedy first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was a shrewd choice. Kennedy knew his way around the exchanges and could not be bluffed; he was also eager to do a good job. Not only did he vigorously administer a rather clumsily written law; he reconciled business to the SEC and encouraged new capital financing in the depth of the Depression...
Then, as now, matchless, hordes of photographers lent their skills to the beautification of these pages. Then, as now, aggressive organization men increased their own and the CRIMSON'S solvency by shrewd dealing with local entrepreneurs...
...Left. Also slated to end its life as a military installation is Fort Jay on Governors Island just half a mile off the southern tip of Manhattan. A shrewd Dutch settler purchased the island in 1637 from Indians for-accord ing to legend-two axheads, a string of beads and a few nails. Parts of Fort Jay still bear the marks of British shells from the American Revolution. Since 1946, it has been headquarters for the U.S. First Army, which is to be consolidated with the Second Army at Fort George Meade, Maryland...