Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...990th hole in match play. Does anyone else know how many holes they had played before having this stroke of luck? That is what it is! Out of the millions of players very few expert amateurs or professionals have had it, proving that skill in the game has nothing to do with it. It also shows I have played 52 courses...
...most important library in the world needs the skill of a trained and experienced library administrator. I have the highest respect for Mr. MacLeish as a poet, but I should no more think of him as Librarian of Congress than as chief engineer of a new Brooklyn Bridge . . . about the same as appointing a man Secretary of Agriculture because he likes cut flowers on his dinner table...
...last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...great, emotional masterpiece that would poeticize the Biological Urge. There were the makings of a truly important picture in "Ecstasy." The scarcity of dialogue, the drifting, almost aimless pace, the startling photography, all would have given the picture rare distinction had they been carried out with technical skill. The production, however, was raw-boned, awkward, and those features that would have saved it were lost...
...Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth serious consideration because of their intrinsic value as works of art. Such a one is Homer's watercolor, "The Berry Pickers," in which the artist's skill in using the watercolor medium to bring out the brightness of the sky on a hot summer day can be clearly seen and appreciated...