Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb. But a check at just one store in Benton Harbor, Mich, revealed that over 1,000 sets had been sold with the detonators intact. Sounding nationwide warnings, the Government men admitted that they had no idea how many I.F.F. sets had been sold throughout the country. Only the skill of the individual buyers (probably most of them are radio hams) stood between them and maiming accidents, serious burns, or blindness from the dynamite caps and fiercely burning thermite...
...soloists both vocal and instrumental, were unformly good. Special notice must go to Leo Wolovsky, the bass. Though he suffered some in the "Quonian" from the competition of the horn, he showed complete understanding of words and music in the "Et in Spiritum Sanetum," with enough technical skill to make both apparent...
...sung by June Donald from the Longy School in a touching natural way. Acis, played by James Perrin, was the only incongruous character. His costume, a combination of long underwear and a green and pink midriff, seemed to clash with everything in sight. Nor did he show the skill at stylization of the other characters, but remained pompously planted throughout most of the production. His tenor voice was robust, however, and, with a few exceptions in the Upper register, assured...
...expect, stress his chances of surviving the operation and getting well. Sometimes, Lipkin & Joseph charged, the doctor "tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...
Yacht Club men took advantage of rough seas yesterday afternoon to swamp the Marblehead Yacht Club, 172-153. The two clubs were tied at the end of four races, 110 all, but in the final two heals the Crimson's skill in high winds paid...