Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great fun, say the resort folders. "The memory of a meal prepared and eaten in nature's open acres, where the aroma of the fire mixes with the fragrance of the sheltering firs, is long remembered." Those who have tried it tend to agree, for reasons varying with the skill of the chef...
Businessmen read the results of S.R.I.'s survey with interest. Ex-professor (University of Chicago) Burleigh Gardner, head of S.R.I., had already won the confidence of such business clients as Sears, Roebuck, United Air Lines, General Mills and International Harvester by his skill in testing group reactions to advertising, selling and personnel programs...
...Street, so if you couldn't make it last night, drop around at 7:30 o'clock this evening. It's not too late to enter the CRIMSON spring competitions for the News, Editorial, Business, and Photo Boards. Sophomores are eligible for the Editorial Board; Freshmen can try their skill with the newshounds, shutterbugs, or hucksters...
...integrated, and externally disciplined. The curriculum was narrow and solid and so was the student product. The reaction against this has reached its height in the last few decades in the wide curriculum and the elective system. It is now turning out a broad but superficial product whose principal skill is that of quick retentive memory and an ability to disgorge and forget a large number of calculated generalities interlarded with a few facts--and whose intellectual interest in any field of education is highly superficial or non-existent. In a small, well-integrated college this problem does not assume...
...Town" and as its scenarist, is that he has attempted to invade the very special cinematic territory held securely by Frank Capra. "It's a Wonderful Life," Stewart's last picture, was a Capra production, and its successful mixture of fantasy, allegory, and sentiment was a demonstration of brilliant skill and showmanship. "Magic Town," on the other hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent of being a fantasy, and certainly has none of the elements...