Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill" Bingham is perhaps Harvard's most popular official, has the knack of making every one of his acquaintances feel like a personal friend. A strong exponent of the "Athletics for All" policy, he has built up an unexcelled athletic plant at Harvard. Despite the growing importance of inter-House sports, he feels that intercollegiate competition is still an essential part of the athletic program. He refuses to dismiss coaches merely because their teams have a few bad seasons. Although Harvard has pursued an athletic policy which, in comparison with those of other institutions, has been the epitome of sanity...
...Arkansas county fair was Harvey Crowley Couch, R. F. C. board member. Asked how he won the medal, he said: "The 'sooey' system. I used to 'sooey' home the hogs on my father's farm when I was a boy. There's a knack to the 'sooey' of course, and the 'cooey' and these newfangled calls can't approach it, once you've got it down...
...Lisbon scholarly Professor Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has been the ''Brain Trust" of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona for six years. The President, a rough cavalry general with an intuitive knack of nipping revolutions, calls his regime pleasantly a "Dictatorship without a Dictator." Last July the Professor, long Finance Minister, was promoted to Premier. Together he and President Carmona have issued many queer but wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted...
Quite possibly the external difficulties of Crane's poetry, like Hopkins' will prevent its ever being widely enjoyed. At any rate, one cannot feel that Waldo Franks' attempt to dispel them in his introductory essay is very fortunates. Mr. Frank, otherwise an excellent editor, displays again his happy knack of giving large expression to little ideas and confuses the problems of Crane's poetry with a serious air of clarification. He does, however, suggest the greatness of Hart Crane's achievement in view of the material he was forced to use, and the authentic idiom which he finally created...
...Many of our best surgeons and best teachers do not have the knack of talking while working, but that may be because of the lack of proper facilities to talk directly to the class while carrying out the surgical procedure. In visiting many of the large clinics of the country, it has always been noticeable to me that the surgeon who would talk to his audience and describe the pathology, technique, etc. always had an attentive group of listeners...