Word: amateurity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 100 G-Men of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 850 agents were concentrated in the New York City area to watch shipping, amateur radio stations, airplane factories, railroad stations, bridges and tunnels...
...little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim Jagellonia Lake. It was in Cracow that he first met Josef Pilsudski, who was organizing rifle clubs throughout Austrian...
...Germany-Italy were one country and if it should attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able to bring help to Poland and to the entire Eastern Front...
None too happy were the Fair's first four months of operations. It had $4,900,000 in debts. Of these $1,600,000 were bills due to contractors for services and supplies, and $3,300,000 were loans from banks and corporations. Under the amateur guidance of plump, pompous Director...
...attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...