Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquisitive organization has sent out to all members of the undergraduate body a questionnaire which in its thoroughness of enquiry, scope of imagination, and absence of tact has hitherto been equalled only by the advertisements of soaps and mouth-washes. This questionnaire represents perhaps the zenith of the Psychologist's bad taste and offers yet another example of the folly of Science when she strays too far from her crucibles and astralobes...
...sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified by a spirit of strict New England economy...
...major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded by barbed wire and mystery, he worked 18 hr. a day, slept in his laboratory, managed his jittery subordinates with tact and understanding. Too late for use in the War he perfected a laboratory process for manufacturing sinister, superdeadly Lewisite gas. His two sons, aged 10 and 7, have never seen their father's uniform, never heard from him his War record...
...year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...there has been a tendency since President Conant's inauguration for a certain friction to arise between the Administration and the press. To allow a return of the spirit of antagonism which prevailed in other days would be to forfeit an advantage won only with much labor and much tact...