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Word: skillfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, where library services come under the category of inalienable rights, the job of directing Lamont as well as supervising the circulation and stacks of Widener is one that calls for skill and diplomacy. McNiff's skill in library science is a matter of record; his diplomacy evident to anyone who has stormed into his office to complain that Lamont doesn't subscribe to Virginia Gypsy Annual...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Behind the Stacks | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

Mencken was an editor of surpassing skill, a journalist of scintillating brilliance, a rare humorist and a savage critic. For years he was the brightest star on the Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Uncommon Scold | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Russia Whips the World | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Pitfalls on the Path. Patterson's path from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Next Champ | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Whenever she could take time from helping to run the ranch, Ruth Chartres sharpened her climbing skill. Last month, at 60, she decided that she was ready. In 17 hours, with two guides, she reached the rugged peak with ease. Back in the lowlands again, Mrs. Chartres announced that she would go right on climbing whenever she could get away from her sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cloud Piercer | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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