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One of his professors, noting his appearance, talked with him earnestly, and with lay acumen decided his digestion was "out of fix" and told him of a "fine New York doctor." The stomach specialist worthily stood high in his profession.
"And all that dysentery, you know, that's all rot, just like the accidental drownings," Bertie continued. "What does dysentery really stand for?" The skipper openly admired his guest's acumen, stiffened himself to make indignant denial, then gracefully surrendered. "You see, it's like this, Mr. Arkwright. These islands have got a bad enough name as it is.
He studied at Oxford and Paris, and his learning and acumen in reasoning earned for him the title The Subtle Doctor. He died at Cologne in 1308. He was a strong upholder of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. His works are published in twelve volumes folio. But the strength of his arguments is equal to the clearness of his definitions.
Many people are accustomed to associate his name with the Atlantic Cable, and with that alone. This, however, is a great mistake, for he has made many important additions to the science of magnetism, respecting which he published a number of valuable papers between the years 1847 and 1851. He has also displayed extraordinary acumen and intelligence in the investigation of the nature of heat.
Look here, at this little book, which I have always carried about in my pocket, studying it constantly, since the time when I made up my mind to fall in love and get married. With these words Tussmann produced from his pocket a little book in parchment binding, and turned up its title-page, which ran as follows: "Brief Tractate on Diplomatic Acumen.
Theology supported this belief; metaphysics and philosophy debated it with an acumen that was practically sterile of usefulness. Mind and body "interacted" in some mysterious way; mind and body were "parallel" and so set that thought-processes and brain-processes ran side by side without really having anything to do with one another.
He and his ex-head-clerk seemed, indeed, to have changed places, so that, before the end of the interview, Iglesias began to measure himself as never before, to realise his own business acumen, his quickness of apprehension, his grasp of the issues presented to him and his own fearlessness of judgment. Whatever the upshot as to the eventual saving of the credit of Messrs.
Their fathers wouldn't prefer caviar to pork roast, would they? It's the same idea." Her shop windows reflected her business acumen. One was chastely, severely elegant, holding a single hat poised on a slender stick. In the other were a dozen honest arrangements of velvet and satin and plumes. At the spring opening she always displayed one of those little toques completely covered with violets.
It was a battle fought with the determination of a soldier, with the gallantry of a knight errant, and the intellectual acumen of a learned lawyer. It is not surprising that many refuse to believe that Lassalle's feeling toward the Countess von Hatzfeldt was a disinterested one.
Mr. Lavender arrived at the edge of the pond slightly in advance of the crowd. "Good Blink!" he said. "Fetch it! Good Blink!" Blink looked up into his face, and, with the acumen for which her breed is noted, perceiving he desired her to enter the water backed away from it. "She is not a water dog," explained Mr. Lavender to the three soldiers in blue clothes. "Good dog; fetch it!"
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