Word: adroitness
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...speak for themselves. Nobody who has seen the CRIMSON team in action can doubt the outcome. The delightful delivery of Steamship Hall will hardly be missed, for Richmond, of the Rhode Island league, is perfection in pitching, while Bishop, the other member of the reversible battery, is no less adroit. Of the candidates, we say nothing, for we believe in kindness...
Such, in briefest outline, are the main services of President Eliot to the University. No man, unless he had the highest abilities, could have done such work. With keen sagacity, he has foreseen the action of educational forces; with unfailing resources of quick intelligence, adroit action, and steady will he has met these forces and maintained the position of Harvard in all circumstances. He is a man of action; always thoroughly acquainted with the matter in hand from its broadest aspects to its minutest details, always clear as to his own intention, always calm, swift and unhesitating in its realization...
Messrs. Pendleton and Page were the contestants in the second drawing of the Middle-weight Sparring. The first round was rather tame, no good work being done by either party. In the second round, Pendleton drew the first blood by an adroit cross counter. The third round was more exciting, but unskilful. The second drawing was won by Page...
Second, the injustice of ranking nearly alike two men, of whom one has a real knowledge of his subject, and the other only what his syllabus has hinted to him. Sir James Stephen has pointed out that in history it is quite possible for an adroit and dexterous man who has coolness, tact, and experience in examinations to assume the deceptive semblance of great erudition. It often happens that one who from much reading is acquainted with the minutiae as well as the outlines of history gets no higher mark (or perhaps not so high) than another who has confined...
...whom they adore, and whose characteristics one may learn from the peculiarities of their worship? His shoulders are broad and his chest deep from much practice with the oar upon the placid Elysian streams; his eyes are quick and sure of sight, for he is skilled in foiling the adroit pitcher of the Olympian nine; his vest is spangled with charms and seals; his nails are pink with celestial henna; his cheeks flushed with ambrosia. Surely our young men are not atheists