Word: instinctiveness
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...twin instinct has one important manifestation. Living and working together, they usually paint the same subject simultaneously. Any person who orders a de Hellebranth portrait has his choice of two canvases. He need pay for only one. As artists the sisters are evenly matched, for each sells about the same number of pictures...
...playing Dartmouth, Harvard encountered a sextet with little to recommend it but a group of well-trained athletes versed in the arts of body-checking and taking out competitors by physical contact. Wood and Saltonstall, who have an instinct for avoiding any direct collisions, escaped but other members of the squad sustained an injury of some kind. In the second tilt, however, the Harvard players were set for the onslaught and were careful not to parade down the ice after the fashion of light rope walkers. Practically no injuries took place in the second game...
...right instructor can relate the disputes of 18th century Deists to essential questions of today. Most of the material in historical courses can be interpreted with some relevance to current problems. The instinct of the scholar, however, is toward examining artistic, economic, or philosophic ideas in their historical setting. Such treatment may foster accuracy of thought, but it risks neglecting the really important point, what the ideas mean today and what is their present validity...
...Recognized with unerring British Parliamentary instinct that Prime Minister MacDonald's declaration winding up the Second Indian Round Table Conference with vague, conciliatory talk of a Third Conference and greater freedom for India, was in fact a move to keep restive India quiet and hitched to the chariot of Empire as long as possible...
...Republic a knowledge and an insight that is particularly grateful in a foreigner. Here Washington appears, not as a political genius, but as a symbol of unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten practicality to use as a leaven for the political dough of Hamilton and Adams...