Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test, when the material for the team is sounded out, will come on Sunday, January 12. On this date the University Championships will be held over the new Tuckerman trail at Pinkham Notch. This trail is fairly easy, but will be a good one on which to demonstrate superior skill and speed. Applications for this race will be taken at Leavitt and Pierce's after vacation...
...best acted and directed productions in several seasons and it is, which is even more important, the first play by a Harvard undergraduate given by the club in 17 years. Young Mr. Eager has a definite flair for writing dialogue, and he manages, with a skill not always found even in mature playwrights, to move his characters about in a manner that suggests natural impulse rather than the arbitrary manoeuvering of a puppet master. The theme of his play--the irreconcilability of opposite temperaments--is quite well handled, too, even though we suspect him of a shade too much fondness...
...taught ambitious parents to listen with respect when Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw speaks on baby training. In the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute, Assistant Director McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...
When Georges Barrere arrived in the U. S. 30 years ago he was roundly twitted because he wore a luxuriant spade beard, long pointed mustachios. Through these he managed to play a flute with uncommon skill, but it was not the wooden instrument his colleagues knew. The young Frenchman played a silver flute. Of the 30,000 professional flautists now in the U. S., all but five use an instrument of silver or some cheaper metal. But Georges Barrere, peer of them all, has gone two steps ahead. Ten years ago he took to playing on a $1,000 gold...
...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...