Word: talented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went in 1911 to Victoria, B. C., where he introduced artificial ice plants to the Northwest, founded and promoted the professional Pacific Coast Hockey League, continued playing hockey until he was 42. In 1926 Boston, New York, Detroit and Chicago, suddenly enthusiastic about professional hockey, began looking for talent to exploit the franchises they had purchased in the National Hockey League, so the Brothers Patrick sold the cream of their players to the Eastern clubs and disbanded the league. While Brother Frank became managing director of the National Hockey League and more recently coach of the Boston Bruins, Brother Lester...
Until the end of May, visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found...
Harkness gained the title by almost pinning Ross Shaffer of Penn State whom he had already defeated once before this year. The talent award was made by a unanimous decision of referees and judges...
Myron Selznick, Hollywood talent agent, put $6,000 on his own entry. The $50 parimutuel windows trailed long queues of cinema celebrities, the $5 windows were stampeded. Over $1,370,000 was bet in four hours. It was a holiday in Hollywood and most studio folk, from Clark Gable down to the lowliest stagehand, were among the 60,000 people celebrating Washington's Birthday with a day at the races...
President Conant of Harvard thinks that perhaps one-half of those students now enrolled in advanced university work might well be swapped for young men who have more talent and perhaps less money. President Conant seeks more scholarships to bring to Harvard the most talented boys. This he does, not alone for the boys and the country, but for Harvard and all the students of Harvard...