Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, asked if it were not "unprecedented" to indulge .in such a hocus-pocus of exchanging non-diplomatic agents. "I do not know of any exact precedents for this situation," replied the Prime Minister, but afterward the Foreign Office's adept precedent-finders found two. There are "British agents" today in Ethiopia and in Manchukuo, they pointed out, and their presence has not constituted recognition by His Majesty's Government of either the empire in Ethiopia or the empire in Manchukuo...
Baum was the outstanding defensive Ineman of the season at right guard for the Deacons, while right end Snydar's play brought to mind the work of Varsity Bob Green. The two backfield men, McClure and Wills, are both triple threats, and both were as adept at catching aerials as they were at throwing them...
...Four Power Pact (TIME, June 19. 1933. et ante). Admiral Horthy, with a fine patriotic eastern European sense of the comparative unimportance of Asia and the Americas, picturesquely suggested that the Asiatic League, the American League and the European League should each have its head office in Geneva. Adept at talking big themselves, Hungarians relished their Regent's grandiose project, improbable as a Hungarian opera...
Died. Alceo Dossena, 60, Italian sculptor who was "born 500 years too late"; of a brain hemorrhage; in Rome. Sculptor Dossena, regarded as a genius in his own right, gained fame by being so adept at copying old masters that he fooled experts. His copies were sold as genuine, brought more than...
Among those who acted as Battery Commander for the student battery during the camp was Joseph H. Nee, '38, whose commanding presence enabled him to discharge his duties in an excellent manner. He proved himself equally adept at kitchen police the following week, for all of the duties at camp are assigned by roster in order to give each student as much first hand knowledge of practical military matters as is possible in the short period of training...