Word: tactfulness
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...layman can have any idea of the multiplicity of qualifications which a man must have to administer a large prison efficiently, economically and with the best results both to the prisoner and the society which imprisons him," said Commissioner Patterson. "In addition to natural qualifications of tact, poise, firmness, tolerance and the ability to understand the other man's viewpoint, wardens must know something of finance, buying, mass feeding, discipline, agriculture, education, recreation, medicine, psychiatry and many other things in order to administer a prison efficiently and along modern lines...
...aptitudes of the young officer are taken into account. Special skill in trade promotion and protection, in office organization and in economic analysis will lead to the high places of Consul General in London, in Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there are at present some thirty who have been so chosen...
...Yale's most justly applauded and admired teachers has pointed out with consummate tact and understanding that from the beginning of a lecture the instructor is under a nervous apprehension lest he may not receive the usual and expected applause. In consequence of this slight, he either becomes more distracted and less coherent in anticipation of further impending "disgrace," or else he "plays up" to the crowd, giving them entertainment, but not necessarily scholarly arguments on the subject in hand...
...Panama in search of the enemy. The Blue's eagle-eyed destroyers were in the lead, the Los Angeles overhead and flagship Arkansas in the rear. Fanwise the Blue spread itself out protectively up and down the coast. At sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine room, vainly chased three hostile cruisers who shipped out of range at 32 knots. At dusk another heavy Black column was sighted and viciously attacked by light sea craft...
...important difference would recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...