Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reflecting on Harvard education's contribution to improving American standards of value, Pusey said, "It seems to me quite unlikely that anyone could be at Harvard very long and fail to acquire, along with knowledge and increased intellectual skill, a resolve to shape his life worthily." "When this happens," he continued, "the individual's experience is at least beginning to come close to religion...
Strains & Indecisions. By contrast, the impassive Communists appeared united, tough and confident. The appearance was significant because international conferences frequently turn, not so much on the skill of the particpants, as on the common assessment of the prevailing realities. Does the West's gloom at Geneva accurately take into account the realities of the two great blocs...
With Eisenhower's contraction of the Government, federal patronage has dwindled to a mere shadow. To date, the National Committee has placed only 2,500 of the faithful in good jobs (i.e., jobs paying $5,000 to $7,000, and requiring no technical or professional skill), a paltry percentage of the payroll and a figure which one single California-sized state would have sniffed at in the good old days...
Actually Catlin never could match the skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...
...Fred Pabst, 84, retired as chairman of the board of Milwaukee's Pabst Brewing Co., leaving the company without a Pabst as an officer for the first time in 88 years. Remaining as president is Harris Perlstein, 61, a chemical engineer whose skill and foresight taught the industry that uniform beer could be brewed at widely separated points, and who made Pabst ("What'll You Have?") Blue Ribbon the leader in the move toward coast-to-coast distribution of beer...