Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, replaced it with the 100-yd. free-style championship, in which she just nosed out Swimmer Petty...
...other words Mr. Hoover is acquiring "what it takes" to get votes. On February 13 his performance was superb. He carried up from the floor terrific hay makers, in the use of which he has always been adept, and interspersed these with quick, deadly rabbit-punches-those novel ironic sallies which are extraordinarily effective politically because they provoke mirth. This style of debate Lincoln knew well; Hoover seems to be learning...
...slip. With a red-haired woman on his arm who appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...
...first game of the three-game series only three goals were allowed up until the final minute of play. In Saturday's game ten tallies were allowed during the same time. The first game Harvard won because of Ash Emerson's adept goal-guarding and Dartmouth's ragged attack. Last Saturday the Indians were not ragged enough nor Emerson adept enough to save the Crimson cause. Throughout the season Harvard has been the potential powerhouse that fails to come through, Dartmouth a team that loses when it is favored, wins when it is underdog...
...medical men officially appertaining to the Royal Family, a half dozen of the more prominent were in attendance, but George V ordered hastily summoned from Buckingham Palace his favorite chef, designating his adept maker of strengthening broths and gruels as ''that fellow who saved my life...