Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field depends on ability to think out certain problems in a fashion that puts a premium on general knowledge and imagination. A few individuals are able to get along with remarkably little work. Others try to do the same; some of these are really interested, but without the knack of "thinking geographically". The rest are just loafers looking for snap courses. Because only upperclassmen are regularly admitted to Geography 1, instructors must form their decisions upon the abilities of would-be concentrators without having any idea of their performance in course-work. When misfits turn up, it is late...
...turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls on the floor and breaks. Thrown out of the saloon for conduct unbecoming to a gentleman, Mr. Fotheringay goes home to experiment with his new found knack. He conjures rabbits, kittens, gold watches and finally a bunch of grapes which he nibbles contentedly before he falls asleep...
...knack of putting information across -- making good students into honor ones or merely putting a man through a course -- accounts for only half his success. The rest comes from his sympathy and his personal friendships...
Aside from these utilitarian aspects of the situation, Dick Harlow has carved a place for himself at Soldier's Field which no one else could fill. Always a genial, philosophic personality, he has the knack of making people wish to work for him. Crimson football players and fans are uniformly grateful for that continuity of purpose which has influenced Coach Harlow to remain in Cambridge...
...months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world's largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June...