Word: adept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing center for the Engineers, will probably prove the hardest man for the Crimson to stop. Berry is a player of high calibre, and has developed a powerful attack for his team. Most of Worcester's scoring has been made on fake passes, in which the team is remarkably adept...
...longer "articles", though ingeniously planned, are less easy to read. Though full of clever touches, they give time for the reader's laughter to pause and wonder. But one rarely reads the longer articles of any comic magazine. The cover is adept, and the mock advertisements so good (or the genuine ones so bad) that it is hard to tell which is what, There is no moral; but the society magazine, of which "Town and Country" is only one of a kind, gets its full and deserved dose of satire in this number. And the High Society that is mirrored...
...Norman Cabot writes with a pleasant hardness and bite of intellectual irony; and Mr. Grant Code is adept in showing his reader a kaleidescope of vivid and colorful details. Mr. Wheelright displays a cleverness which would perhaps be more at home in prose than in verse; and Mr. Merton writes with the neatness, if not with the power, of a Landor. And, finally, in Mr. Snow and Mr. R. Cameron Rogers one finds serious effort toward a self-realization which is not yet quite accomplished, but which holds good promise. Altogether, the book is more than a Harvard anthology...
...brains of the business system today is engaged in the game of capturing markets rather than in the production of goods", said Mr. A. G. Skelding, former Dean of the Babson Statistical Institute, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. "The larger rewards go to those who are adept in selling and advertising, and as a consequence we have industrial stagnation, deadlock, and increased cost in living...
...Wynn's "Black and White" orchestra; Earl Richard, of Passing Show fame, entertained with "coon" wit and song; the "White Way Trio" gave choice selections from Broadway's repertoire of ragtime, pathos and humor; William Moran and Al Wiser proved that they were not only good jugglers but also adept comedians; the "Glorias" charmed their audience with their clever interpretation of pantomine and fancy ball-room dancing; while "Permane and Shelly" in "Pulley-Pulley" turned the tables on their audience, proving to be clever musicians and not acrobats...