Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...songs & dances. But Composer Duke's tunes are undistinguished and the dancing, although better, is uneven: a montage of scenes from Sadie's life has real choreographic color, and last season's Merry Widow team of Milada Mladova and Chris Volkoff have style and skill; but there is too much regulation South Seas wriggling and a generally poor ballet...
...Something of this was immediately reflected in the first approach to study of the situation in Southern California," the study continues. "Everywhere the need for the best in applied science and technical skill was fully understood, the chief handicap being a shortage of technically competent workmen. And it all points to the advantages of balanced operation--an increased quantity of production, lowered costs of production, and a reduction in extravagant absence records and turnover. This reduction benefits not only individuals but also industry as a whole...
Last week, in England, Squadron Leader Browne was awarded the Empire's coveted Distinguished Flying Cross. Said the citation: "This officer has displayed a high standard of skill and courage in operations against the enemy. He is an excellent leader. .. . ." Browne was the 102nd American R.C.A.F. man to win a British or Canadian decoration. Some others: ¶ Squadron Leader John Harvey Curry, 4g. A Texan (Dallas), he enlisted in 1940, won the D.F.C. and the Order of the British Empire...
Jill Poole came by her skill through heredity as well as by application. Her father, tall, burly Police Inspector Harold Joseph Poole, has been ringing changes ever since World War I, today is Ringing Master of Leicester Cathedral...
Thus Christina Stead, author of the widely acclaimed House of All Nations (TIME, June 13, 1938), describes with mordant skill the turmoil within her young heroine, the schoolteacher who seemed such a prude but who alone in her room paraded her nudity in obscenely contrived costumes and prayed to Venus for fulfillment. Less convincing is Author Stead's description of Teresa's attempt to find an answer to her prayers...