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Word: adept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several years, and the foremost advocate of its value as an advertising medium in this organization, it was with great dismay that I read the singularly inept reference to Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation which appeared in the Sept. 9 issue under the heading of "Aeronautics." . . . Were your correspondents as adept at gathering facts as they seem to be at ferreting out middle names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative in the aircraft manu facturing field one such strong, well-financed, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...these two processes were revealed with successive variations, all theories broke down. The end was mystery. An English delegate, entrusted with reporting the Hooker mysteries, said he would not be believed. A U. S. adept told how he had paced the streets, unable to sleep, tortured with speculation. Dr. Hooker will presumably leave his secret to the younger men who already share it, with instructions that they keep it amateur magic, bequeath it in time to other successors. Perhaps the Hooker secret will thus be kept for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Merlins | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...able windman in the Cincinnati Symphony. The Musicians' Union, largely "Joe" Weber's work, is one of the strongest labor organizations in the land - or was, until talkies came. For himself, "Joe" Weber does not have to worry. Besides being a musician, he is a prosperous adept in the science-art of Chiropractic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musicians' Plight | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Among the personal triumphs, Mr. John Archer's clear tenor voice was outstanding, but he should try for more pointedness in his spoken parts. Mr. Fonda's clowning did more to keep up the risibility than any other single feature, while Mr. Partridge was especially adept in his dancing specialty. The adagio waltz specialty by Mr. Winter and Miss Frothingham should also prove enjoyable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB IN MUSICAL COMEDY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

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