Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota, in a combination of skill and luck, licked them at their own game...
This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
...Lost. Papen had played his political game with great skill and complete unscrupulousness. Why did he lose the last trick? Says Author Koeves: "He was slated to lose, for he had misjudged his century. He based his scheme on the assumption that democracy was dead and the way open for the return of an old-fashioned oligarchy." But "democracy, the 'rule of the people,' had taken a devious, paradoxical form, expressed in National Socialism and Communism. The masses had been lured into believing that nobody was taking their freedom away, but that they were renouncing it of their...
Pledged "to provide all possible support to all Frenchmen who have refused to accept Nazi domination," to inform the people of France of the progress of General DeGaulls's movement, and to put the skill and experience of French military experts at the disposal of the U. S. Army and Navy Departments, the Harvard unit maps an active campaign...
...they won four World Series in a row (1936-37-38-39). Creaking Charlie Ruffing, their 36-year-old ace, has won only 15 games this year. So has Lefty Gomez, another World Series standby. But methodical Manager Joe McCarthy, the Yankees' master strategist, is noted for his skill at manipulating pitchers. He has nine more, though mediocre, to call...