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Taking advantage of a new law, the burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales�from $11,200 to $14,000 a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

What does count is talent, that peculiar qualification which seems to lead the student to see through complex problems as if he had been solving them through different generations for centuries.

From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by Cooke, James Francis