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Word: skill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Lowell, in reporting the resignation of Dean Hanford's prodecessor. Chester Noyes Greenough '98, pointed out that the "office is very exacting and requires tact, skill, and constructive imagination in a rare degree...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgls, | Title: Dean Hanford Resigns This Month After Two Decades of Promoting Respect for Learning | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...hint of the "tact" and "skill" Dean Hanford used in his personal relations with wayward students was reported in the Alumni Bulletin...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgls, | Title: Dean Hanford Resigns This Month After Two Decades of Promoting Respect for Learning | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...Electra, Metro and others), redesigner of periodicals (Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Century, Scribners, The Yale Review, American Mercury) book designer (A. A. Knopf, Harper Brothers, Yale University Press, Random House. The Limited Editions Club, Riverside Press, William E. Rudge, Harvard University). Master of Arts. Citation: "Typographical designer whose skill and creative imagination have left a lasting impress on the pages of our time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Degrees to Bradley, Marshall, Oppenheimer | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...takes me from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with a gag. Besides, he is far too shrewd to be caught in a whopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Schubert: Quartet in E Flat Major (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). The freshness and tunefulness of Schubert at 20, without the skill and maturity of Schubert at 30. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Records | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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