Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever happens, his present surpassing skill at "being useful" is the main reason why the average veteran at Harvard never had it so good...
...hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 300 Ibs.) contract bridge expert; after a heart attack; in Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...
...than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able, but over-enthusiastic, performance...
...They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which called for wariness, skill and a capacity to meet Russia's sustained meanness. For this assignment Acheson could be just...
...later life is a welcome change from the "What I Did This Summer" themes of English a. But this brings up problems which are going to have to be licked to make the program work out. The GE announcement implies that the course papers will be read for writing skill as well as context, and that the student who fails to meet basis standards will be required to take the corrective course: an eminently constructive approach and well in line with the whole idea of the program. It entails, however, the ability of the man reading the papers to compare...