Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus Tower are inscriptions in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Not with out tact must the Y. M. C. A. be, for Jerusalem seethes with 52,000 Jews, 19,000 Moslems, 19,000 assorted Christians. Fortnight ago when Lord Allenby ap peared in Jerusalem, there were angry mutterings in Arab newspapers. Veiled Moslem women paraded making bitter speeches. To them it seemed that the Y. M. C. A. planned to proselytize with its fine new building. But they were mis taken. And other Jerusalemites were less truculent because they had already seen how the Y. M. C. A. operates...
...plump, pink and nice.'' A model youngster, he never got spanked. Early association with grown-ups matured him rapidly and he soon became "a responsible little body . . . with a pretty conservative sense of values." Once an aunt told him he was full of tact. His reply: "Yes, I'm just chock full of tacks." He was always busy collecting stamps, building tree houses, modeling boats, stuffing birds, riding his pony. Recalls his mother...
...Williams Douglas, 38, of Phoenix, Ariz, will not sit with the Cabinet but his presence will be strongly felt whenever they meet. Personal friendship aside, the new President plucked him out of the House to head the Budget Bureau because nowhere else could he find a better combination of tact and tenacity, industry and intelligence...
...firecracker under the athletic world by severing connections with Harvard because of an unfortunate Lampoon editorial. The break was, however, due to more than a broadside in the college comic; it was caused by a crisis in relations that had been badly frayed by lack of tact, sportsmanship, and sanity. The editorials reprinted below are all too reliable witnesses to that; there is a malevolence betrayed in them which one feels, cannot return. The day of football rallies, of graduate agitation for a larger and finer stadium, of point-a-minute teams, has passed. The false pride and exaggerated loyalty...
...CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. But it is just such trivial breaches of common sense, not to mention tact, which make the spirit of the Harvard-Princeton game that of a prize flight.--Tuesday, November...