Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production of light, heat and power from fuels and falling water; electric communication; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines and innumerable commodities; railway, highway and water transportation; and the construction and operation of numerous works for the public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder, the inventor, the scientific investigator and the executive, requiring a knowledge of men and things as well as a training in science...
...Stadium Princeton did better, getting nine of the 15 honors. Considering the three teams in an intercollegiate meet, however, both Yale and Harvard should outpoint Princeton. The significant factor in intercollegiates is the first men from each college in the various events. When pitted against the best talent of the country, men who get seconds and thirds in dual meets hardly figure...
...Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse to protest against the tendency on the part of a small group...
...handful either, have established themselves in the literary firmament. Those who come after, those who have not as yet graduated from college, will find their way easier. They will not be swayed by the heat of conflict; nor will they have to contend with overwhelming opposition. If possessed with talent and energy, college men may now develop their literary powers in as inspiring and favorable a milieu as has never before been granted to creative genius...
Miss Lowell was born in Brookline in 1874, and early showed evidence of marked poetical talent. She published single poems from time to time and as her fame and popularity grew she collected them together and published them in book form...