Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help such men that the Tutoring Bureau has been organized. It will volunteer advice in studies to all those who apply. The applicants will be sent to fellow students who have discovered the knack of picking the important points in lectures and reading, of taking useful notes upon these, and of correlating the material of the courses to review for examinations. Little effort can or should be made to cram a student on a particular subject, and very frequently it is comfort rather than actual tutoring that the student needs most...
Governor "Al" Smith has always exhibited a knack for writing good political "copy". Nor is his recent letter to Governor Pinchot, in which he champions all users of hard coal against the monster Pennysylvania, an exception to this rule. His pointed suggestion that the increase in the price of anthracite be entirely absorbed inside the state mining it, will appeal to the citizen with a furnace-and a ballot...
...STEP ON THE STAIR?Anna Katherine Green ? Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Anna Katherine Green may be considered the inventor of the detective story as we know it. She is an old woman now, but she has not lost the knack that caused her name to be for so many years practically synonymous with a certain type of mystery story. This one has all the old ingredients shaken up with all the old vigor...
...waitresses sympathize in his bereavement. It is needless to describe now he ate the shredded wheat on the cob, or the steak, or the jellied egg, or the dessert of pie a la mode, sauce oyster. If one merely understands and imitates the epicurean spirit in ordering, and the knack of turning apt phrases, then one can rest assured oft success...
...Opportunities to take photographs at College are unlimited. Almost every sport can be photographed in an interesting way, and the photographer gets all the opportunity he wants to use his knack and skill and ingenuity. Many notables come to a large university such as Harvard, and here again is an opportunity to take interesting pictures. By learning the art of photography, the college man can provide himself with a hobby and recreation in which he will find much pleasure later in life...