Word: tactfulness
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...executive. In this country, however, the scholar and the business man are apt to be at such opposite poles of thought that such division of labor would only result in friction. It might even be suicidal. So authority must be vested in one man, a man of infinite tact and courage, who must balance Babbitry and philology...
Asked about his predicament, Superintendent McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness of the magazines; no longer do they remain discreetly silent on religious, political and social questions, fearing that they might lose a few subscribers through lack of tact. Instead they have made their columns open forums for intelligent, liberal and sometimes radical opinion...
...suggestion from Harvard Athletic authorities that the Harvard-Princeton football game be suspended for 1927 and 1928 the PRINCETONIAN was for the most part silent on the matter, but nevertheless dubious. It was generally felt that Princeton was big enough, sensible enough to overlook a slight lack of tact for the sake of keeping unimpaired an old and undeniably valuable athietic relationship between three great eastern universities...
...roasting of the cocoa bean . . . requires a certain tact which is akin to inspiration...