Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serial's formula is surefire. It is skill fully designed to give listeners the impression that they are eavesdropping on a typical small-town American family...
...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
...stronger than often supposed. Through her ability to give Lend-Lease in reverse, and to supply Lend-Lease to Russia on an equal if not bigger scale than the U.S., Britain has shown her inherent industrial potential. In the course of the war she has sharply increased the skill and efficiency of her labor. Her proved ability to build high-grade aircraft, plus her far-flung bases, should give her a substantial slice of postwar air traffic. Finally, to the degree that she is able to curb inflation, she will emerge with a relatively favorable level of prices and costs...
Ranking with these in interest are graves. Here again the amateur can do irreparable damage: "The successful removal of a skeleton often calls for unusual skill and an inordinate expenditure of time and patience. In damp ground bones may be so soft as to defy movement until hardened by drying or by special treatment with fixing solutions. An inexperienced digger may tear away a skeleton without being aware of its presence. Since the teeth are less likely to take on the color of the damp soil, a bungling amateur may report that he found no bones, merely a few teeth...
...lighter side of Harriet is sometimes lifelike, sometimes merely Life With Fatherlike. Its serious moments-the capture of a fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...