Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permit. An identical system would go far to help English A. If a placement test were substituted for the Anticipatory--perhaps something along the lines of the late-lamented College Board Achievement Tests in English--it could split the course into far more interesting and efficient sections of comparable skill...
Four Athletic Association members won their white blazors for outstanding skill and participation in Annex sports at an AA cider and doughnuts party in Cabot game room yesterday afternoon. Pictured above are Patricia Hughes, Marion Marshall, and Ann Clark, AA president--all '49--and Nina Emerson '50 each of whom accumulated more than the 750 points required to earn the jacket and seal, which is the highest athletic award at Radcliffe...
...President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Model for Laggards. In some cases great improvement has resulted from a change of methods, without any new machines. A textile mill in Bolton rearranged the machines in its cardroom, set workers to acquiring high skill at one job instead of puttering at several. Production per man-hour went up 39%, cost went down 10% a pound, and workers had more free time (for tea, etc.) on the job. Yet in the textile industry as a whole the man-hour output remains abysmally...
When Robert Montgomery has the screen to himself, "The Saxon Charm" threatens to become a solid, intelligent film. Montgomery plays the part of the villainous Broadway producer Matt Saxon with skill and variety and as much subtlety as the script allows. Saxon in supposed to be the kind of domineering psychopath who wraps his will around everybody in his path, and drains them of individuality. He barges into their private lives, insulting, fascinating, and usually ruining them. That's the theoretical Saxon, at any rate...