Word: prowesses
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...lost. Lucas, in a desperate move, enters the the ultimate arena of high school prowess--the football field. Physically he is utterly inadequate for such an endeavor, but he attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his very down-to-earth courage. Will Lucas get the girl? Will his classmates accept him for what he is? Are football players such bad guys after all? This is Hollywood. You can bet at least a compromise with fate will be worked...
...this kind of effort which led to Ohno's great prowess as a high school athlete. He lettered three consecutive years in baseball, soccer and hockey. His high school hockey team qualified for the state tournament each of his three years and won the tournament his junior year--no mean feat in a hockey-crazed state...
...father thinks that troubles in the batter's box, in addition to the growing prowess at hockey, had a hand in the decision. "His weakness was hitting; he wasn't a power hitter," Matthew Blair says. "He was a crummy hitter...
Indeed, it almost seems that he invented modernism all at once. During 1921 and 1922 he proposed on paper two grand, denuded glass skyscrapers, a pair of unassailable abstract objects oblivious to everything but their own technological prowess. The drawings of the two buildings, on display at MOMA, are oversize and dashing, like Mies himself. Designed without particular functions in mind, one without even a hypothetical site, the forms are altogether different from the architecture that preceded them, not merely novel but profoundly new. Neither was to have any obvious top, bottom, entrance or decoration. Mies' visionary high-rise modernism...
...judges selected students who showed academic prowess and demonstrated excellence in extra-curricular activities, said Steven Cohen, Time's public affairs manager...