Word: talents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unless the tennis playing talent of Radcliffe is persuaded to venture to the Tennis and Squash Shop by 6 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the women's singles matches in the Red Cross Tennis Tournament must be cancelled. Last night 17 civilian and service students at Harvard and only two women had entered the contest, which will be played on the Business School Courts beginning next Monday evening...
...full justice, and that is why I wish to express my appreciation publicly. My literary standing in this country and in Great Britain would certainly not be what, gratifyingly, it is, if I had not had the good fortune of finding a translator of the devotion and linguistic talent of Mrs. Helen Lowe-Porter...
...Bernadette) Jones out of the cloister and made her an All-American girl. She rewards him with a nervous, carefully studied, somewhat overintense performance. Selznick placed a big bet on Shirley Temple's comeback and she pays off enchantingly as a dogged, sensitive, practical little girl with a talent for bargaining...
During the past week, however, considerable talent has been unearthed from among the new Freshman class. Among those slated for possible action this term are Walter Coulson, a promising first baseman from Lawrence Academy, who is expected to start in Saturday's game, J. M. Dunn, a third baseman from Andover, Weston Durant, a catcher from Thayer Academy, Shaw Livermore, a pitcher, from Mercersburg Academy, and Bob Goodale, an outfielder...
...addition to the obvious tax advantages, the pension plans provided another answer to a pressing corporation problem: how can corporations keep top talent from straying? The practice of granting stock options as a form of incentive pay (TIME, June 5) had been one answer. Pension plans are a far more popular...