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Word: talents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost missed the balloon landing, but the rest of the show was exciting enough to make up for it. For the second year in a row, the Lowell House Opera Group, once a strictly small-time organization, has produced a show which for size and talent equals anything the college has to offer. Perhaps it had its rough spots, but you can't score 100 percent all the time...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: The Golden Apple | 4/27/1956 | See Source »

...guild will attempt to get most of its singers from Harvard and Radcliffe, but will go outside the University for talent if necessary, Cortright said. Auditions already are being scheduled for Harvard-Radcliffe singers, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drama Groups Reveal Plans | 4/24/1956 | See Source »

Once, consultants were little more than efficiency experts with a fancier title. Today the management consultant tries to be a hired superman: a co-strategist, talent scout, policy adviser, hatchet man (to chop down executive deadwood), naysayer and new-business finder. In the postwar boom the consultant business (2,000 firms grossing more than $400 million annually) has grown faster than ever, as industrialists, facing the largest opportunities (and pitfalls) in history, have looked for experienced guides for mergers and for diversification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS: Good Medicine for Ailing Companies | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Still experimenting with his wealth of doubles talent, coach Jack Barnaby played Gravem-Fisher, Rod Nickols-Pete Krogh, and Maynard Canfield-Bob Goldman. Each pair won in two sets with only Nichols and Krogh being forced past the normal...

Author: By F.w. BYRON Jr., | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Routs B.U.; Junta Tops Kerr in Three Sets | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Big Day | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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