Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his artistic skill and interest growing, he graduated and took a course in education. Then he had to make a choice between taking a job with a London film company or returning to high school as a guinea pig in an art education program which was just getting under way in Natal...
...small measure, the gratitude of the nation. I request that you consider the merits of his young son [19-month-old Iven C. Kincheloe III] for appointment as a cadet in the U.S.A.F. Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. His rich inheritance stems from a father whose superb technical skill and selfless dedication to country were demonstrated in outstanding fashion in his perilous duties as an experimental flight test pilot...
Three aspects of the new appointments showed evidence of John's skill and vigor at diplomacy: the Pope 1) recognized the critical state of the church in Latin America in giving cardinals for the first time to Uruguay and Mexico, 2) stiffened the church's position against the Reds by appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope...
...League administrators are happy. With uniform admission standards, they turn up with teams of roughly equal strength that beat each other with unpredictable irregularity, making up in excitement what they may lack in consistent skill. They even produce a few topflight football players. The likes of Harvard's Tackle Bob ("Shag") Shaunessy, Brown...
...Years of Work." Of the "very significant results," says School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen, the best has been virtual absence of racial clashes for the past year or more. There have been few clashes in athletics, where skill is more important than prejudice. In social activities, such "dangers" as mixed dancing are avoided by student disinterest or discretion. At John Philip Sousa Junior High School (now 72% Negro), dances have been limited to the graduation prom...