Word: inexpert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billed as the best ever. Five companies cooperated in the research which produced it-Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Monsanto Chemical, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Announced cost: $6,000.000. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, an old motormaker (Moons) but a notably inexpert motorist, made a speech. A congratulatory telegram arrived from Franklin Roosevelt...
Sherwood does not indulge in any awkward sermonizing. Instead, he quotes from Lincoln's own vibrant speeches, particularly the famed "House Divided" one, and lets their message carry forward into the present. Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a frequently inexpert play, slow in getting started, discontinuous in structure, too literary in some of its writing, too emotional in some of its appeal. But it is also a fervent play, burning fiercely with the spirit of what Lincoln, rightly or wrongly, has come to stand for in the hearts of his countrymen...
...with knowing hummings in the audience during the slow section. There was the less familiar Second Rhapsody in Blue, written as a Rhapsody in Rivets, and there was An American in Paris. The rest of the evening was Gershwin at his best; not the Gershwin of symphonic gropings and inexpert orchestrations, but the Gershwin of effortless, ingratiating song, in musi-comedy and cinema...
...well-intentioned attempt on the part of the University to light the way for unwary freshmen in their search for the most suitable field of concentration. With the deadline less than three weeks away, most of these students still find themselves groping in the dark, getting shreds of completely inexpert advice from undergraduate friends, well-meaning families, or casual acquaintances among the faculty. In the majority of cases, this year as before, the services rendered by freshman Advisers will not be able to be measured by Mallinckrodt's most sensitive instruments...
...halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles. Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning. Like a crack football team, the robbers went through their criminal plays with the precision of true professionals...