Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...namely, the granting of permanence to coaching positions. This action can only be commended. It is desirable at all times for the coaches to know that good character coupled with an interest in their work and the ability to teach will result in their continued retention and that the knack to produce winning teams is no longer a criterion in this respect...
Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...
...people own most of the machines and the oil wells. The rest must work, starve or be supported by charity. And the great bulk work. Some few have learned the knack of living without work. They join the constant soup kitchen brigade. Many are too old or sick or maimed or insane. Nearly 100,000 people are in the almshouses, and more than 350,000 are in the state institutions for mental patients...
Pigeon-holers used to put Ruth Suckow into the compartment marked "Dreary Middle West, small-town." Pigeon-holers were wrong. Authoress Suckow is not one of those documentary writers who cannot see the people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...
...Cardinals have no one with Grove's control, but they have Wild Bill Hallahan who throws the ball with blinding speed and has the knack of winning games. They have Burleigh Grimes, greatest of the spitball school, an opportunist, a fine money-player. They have such able right-handers as Jesse Haines, seasoned in other world series, and Sylvester Johnson...