Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposedly spent the winter months on the water dodging ice floes while Harvard and MIT worked with machines and in tanks. This could be an indicator that the BU men will have an edge on their opposition in physical condition. No other knowledge about the BU freshman crew's talent, or lack of it, is available since it hasn't raced...
They were failures in the community. As all good Communist leaders must be, they were men with a talent for subservience, half citizens in the half-lit world of the Communist conspiracy. To rule, it was necessary to take orders. The only True Word, they taught as they had been taught, was the word from Moscow. Actually political neuters, they lived by the rule that the Comintern was the responsible custodian of men's minds and men's consciences...
...Hogan's, and that wasn't Ben's fault. He won $3,823 in four tournaments before his near-fatal auto accident in February, and is still seventh on this year's list of money winners. As in big league baseball, the flow of young talent had been pinched off by World War II and was just beginning to be seasoned enough to make itself felt...
...Time Is Now. The hour is not only Britain's finest, but Churchill's, calling upon him to exert to the full every talent and scrap of wisdom of his 65 knowledgeable years. Out from under their old wraps he brings a host of favorite, once-rejected projects (such as the portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider...
Owen, who heads this well-organized department, Jordan and Perkins (English history), Karpovich (Russian history), and Brinton (European intellectual history) combine unquestioned academic brilliance with an infectious interest in their subject. Altogether, there is an impressive enough array of professorial talent to please every intellectual taste...