Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Foster, a sophomore, rose last fall like a rocket from the freshman squad to his brother Adam's former number one position on the varsity. He will match his skill and natural ability against Oliver's accurate placement shots...
...almost every country, Acheson went on, "There is some nucleus of skill, some group of people whose technical abilities can be expanded with help from the outside." The U.S. would work with these people. If successful, the program would also "create the conditions under which capital may flow into those countries. [The President] did not say this was to be governmental capital...
...Letter to Three Wives. A trio of crises in the young married set, told with skill and knowing laughter, with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
Last summer, Hindemith thought he had finally approached his ideal. Manhattan's New Friends of Music asked famed Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after...
While Adam was a "brains" player, Henry relies more on skill and natural ability, and for that reason Coach Barnaby thinks he is the most talented of the three. Combining a strong shot with beautiful control and ability to anticipate, Henry plays the kind of sound, rounded squash game that Barnaby calls "absolutely up-to-hoyle...