Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea, this was a complete giveaway of Henry Morgenthau's economic limitations. It could only have come from a man who knew nothing more of U.S. business than as a bondholder who ventures nothing and owns nothing but a paper right to collect interest on the risks, brains, skill and effort of other...
...simplest form the basic unsoundness of his proposal is evident from a single example: One man may have founded a business by much effort, skill and good management with a $5,000 investment. Another man, less able and less hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
Somewhat sceptical of this tale, members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club last summer decided to be the first ever to scale the mountain of Huagoruncho, more to test their climbing skill than to discover the fabled cross...
...honor the fire god Huehueteotl, captives were tossed into pits of coals to sizzle while the black-clad priests danced. Just before they died they were fished up with hooks. Their chests were sliced open with sharp stone knives and their hearts wrenched with practiced skill from their blistered bodies...
...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...