Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would rejoice at Saturday freedom, despite mutterings of the Overseers. Perhaps Curley's calendar distortions would make a subject for a Cambridge mayoralty issue. That Curley could slip through the job is certain. He would not have to search far into his administration to find some one who is adept at the necessary juggling of figures...
...been arrested for the murder of a French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a scowling Japanese adept with his great broad blade...
...weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year to a school in Paris. Frank, impulsive, vivacious, she is a pronounced brunette, eyes almost black, sparkling. With horse or tennis ball she is tolerably adept. Friendly, she is a firm friend of eloped brother Dana, no blood...
...Near East, Africa. He spent 1904 in Greece. In France before the War he met Georges Clemenceau at the studio of Claude Monet. In 1914 he offered his polylinguistic services to the Tiger. He served as an officer in the French, British and U. S. Armies successively. Especially adept was he at detecting whether or not a man's dialect in any language corresponded to the town he purported to be from; by this means he exposed many a German spy, sent him out to be shot. Once acting the spy himself, he was dropped from an airplane behind...
...work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works on the sly and wages are "slipped" to him, but he draws the dole as "unemployed." An adept has even been found who under seven aliases drew seven dole payments per week...