Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocates what amounts to a liberalization of the Press and of its aims. This liberalization would come through the welcoming of a more popular output, and a close monopoly of "home talent" to be gained by making overtures to prospective authors in the University before the outside presses have had opportunity to canvass. It would thus get the contract for books of a more or less popular appeal before they could be taken up outside. This would not only be remunerative and act as a sort of patronage for less favored books, but would give the Press a wider publicity...
This scholarship is intended to assist men on their graduation from college in the development of their talent...
...many men the competition for places in the Freshman Glee Club seems unusually severe and discouraging--and here the Hall Choruses play a useful part. Not only are they the proving ground for future choristers, but they serve to develop the latent talent in many Freshmen not quite good enough for the Glee Club. After all it is not important as to which of the halls renders "Upidee" or "The Tavern in the Town" most tunefully; the all-important purpose is to get the Freshmen together, and incidentally to interest a large number in singing and music--men who otherwise...
...field of portraiture that Bellows' greatest talent is found. His oil painting, Introducing John L. Sullivan, clearly shows that he is at his best when treating his favorite subject-the boxing ring. This same subject is even more strikingly handled in his lithographs; the picture Firpo Knocks Out Dempsey is most vivid, both in the drawing of the naked, perspiring bodies of the fighters and in the faces and poses of the spectators and ring officials caught in a moment of suspense...
...young writers knew how eagerly great publishing houses are constantly searching manuscripts for new talent, they would be encouraged to enter the profession...