Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commercial buying, so that she now buys $135,000,000 per year more goods from the U. S. than she sells to that nation; and sells $345,000,000 more to Great Britain than she buys from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall...
...remember seven books written, of which four-The Pot Boils, The Pitiful Wife, Three Kingdoms and now, The Lovely Ship are inferior to little that the last decade has produced. She would be justified in feeling that her education in London University, her journalistic and advertising preliminaries, have molded talent to a secure success...
...pain for Artist Lawrence to look upon purple and blue landscapes then for they served only to remind him that his talent was lodged with him useless. But he bore in mind the image of Daniel Vierge, the Spanish painter, who refused to be cheated of his brush by a failing hand. Vierge had learned to paint over again with his left hand. Mr. Lawrence determined to do likewise. This was no easy task for a man past youth to set himself. Yet it was accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works...
...their nation-wide search for new silver-screen talent, the backers of the drive sent representatives to 37 universities, attracting approximately 15,000 aspirants for a trip to Hollywood...
...motion picture talent seekers sent photographic units to 37 universities and more than 15,000 men reported to attempt to qualify for screen honors...