Word: tactfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yesterday they held another meeting without fireworks or gun play. A soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...
...teaching as assistant professor of Systematic Theology, when Smith College offered him its presidency. His career at Smith lasted for seven years. It brought into play the powers which had been already manifest and were yet to be more manifest-an extremely good mind, an uncommon amount of energy, tact and administrative ability joined to a sense of scholarship...
...outstanding brilliance that made Friedrich Ebert so successful as first President of the German Republic. Tact, willingness to go halfway in bridging crises, and, withal a careful tenacity of principle will make his loss severely felt. Few people expected so great a success in guiding a new government built on shattered foundations. He has survived many a more brilliant leader of post-war Germany...
...following, an exchange of letters between Baptist and Bishop was published less conspicuously. The Baptist wrote with infinite tact on the subject of Church union, suggesting that those who stood outside the Episcopalian fold should be given a share in its governance. He concluded...
...Bishop also wrote with infinite tact, but nevertheless rejecting the proposal in terms more absolute than those in which the proposal had been couched. After expressing his conviction in the validity of prayers for union, the bishop pronounced...