Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forum expert, Granik gets plenty of opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted...
Produced during the years 1887 to 1939, the Ware Collection of Glass Flowers is the most popular exhibit at the University, attracting some 200,000 visitors annually. The Blaschkas were the only artisans in the world combining the skill with glass and the knowledge of botany required to create the models, and the work ceased at the death...
...from teach- ing as a craft, the School, cooperating with President Conant in 1936, started giving the degree of Arts in Teaching to those who could demonstrate competence in the subjects in which they were to teach, their understanding of the social and individual significance of education, and their skill as teachers. This is one of the few Master's degrees given in America for proven accomplishment rather than for credits is courses...
Women are allowed less leadership in the church than in almost any other field of U. S. activity. But notable at New Haven were the skill and spokesmanship of many an able Episcopal laywoman. Chief speech at the annual C. L. I. D. banquet was given by Vida Button Scudder, emeritus professor of English at Wellesley. Principal speaker at the opening session was Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today...
...basis of skill and facility alone, I can also praise John Crockett's "1929--There Is a Clock That Always Strikes." This, however, is a cloyingly wistful memory of an age that has passed, an album of Daguerreotypes of "orange blossoms" and "milkweed gloves," that reaches its supreme moment of pathos with: "The hope chest drawers are empty now." It would be naive and thoroughly undesirable to expect the Advocate to become a magazine of "social significance," and yet it is completely reasonable to expect some focussing, some more intense realization of implications in a poem of this sort...