Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulder stars, a salute of 17 guns). Soldierly son of a Civil War father (Lieut.-General Arthur MacArthur), the new Chief was born in barracks at Little Rock, Ark., went to West Point as soon as he could. There he was senior-year (1903) cadet-captain, popular, a baseball adept. Graduated into the Corps of Engineers, he engaged in rivers-&-harbors work, experience which must have weighed heavily with the engineering President. But also of importance was the wide variety of other services General MacArthur has seen: aide (1908) to President Roosevelt, General Staff Officer (1913-15), press information officer...
...just born" in grimy Liverpool. At 14 he was not wearing an Eton collar but windjamming on seas high and wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled by men with almost as little formal education as himself (Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden attended board...
...Emperor Claudius wrote a book on the Roman form of the game. Domitian was an adept and Caligula a cheat. Its English name comes from the Saxon baec (back) and gamen (game)-a game in which the draughtsmen are liable to be sent back. For a long time it has been played on sidewalk tables in European restaurants, on steamers, in school common rooms, and in nurseries. In the U. S. it has gained new favor in the last year. Its vogue came mysteriously, quickly: boards, once relatively easy to get, came to be in such demand that...
...output of Balakvirev, Cui, Moussorgsky and Borodin, whose group he later joined. He even wrote music during his maritime period (he had always studied as much as his limited opportunities allowed) but it was uneven, unpolished. When he finally abandoned the navy, he studied unceasingly until he became an adept craftsman. It is related that he procured all kinds of instruments and blew into, plucked or bowed them, to see for himself what kind of noises they could be made to produce. He later rewrote all his early work which seemed to him important...
...representative at the International Woman's Congress where she was barred because she professed Socialism. Returning to Rome, she became directrix of the new Scuola Magistrate Ortofrenica (state institution for feeble-minded). Here was formulated the nucleus of what most pedagogs now know as the Montessori Plan. So adept did her backward children become that they outstripped conventionally-trained, normal children in public school examinations...