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Word: skilfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the science of psychoanalysis was developed long before the War, it was not until the hectic '20s that psychoanalysts began to open their science to large groups instead of restricting their skilful emotional probings to a few isolated individuals. In 1924, a group of socially-minded psychiatrists and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Orthopsychiatrists | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

What the Professor overlooks is the Fascist army mobilized at the border, the fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eleventh-Hour Democrat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was a 10-to-1 favorite before ringtime. But John Henry Lewis, just seven days older but three years wiser in ring experience, is one of the most skilful boxers in the business. He had been defeated only seven times in 99 fights, had never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black-Jack Joe | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Jean Françaix: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Paris Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: November Records: November Records | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

An ambitious attempt at a rounded story of detection, in which Albert Campion expertly solves three deaths in a professional and artistic London circle. Not only is it a skilful mystery, with a solution that stays in solution until the end, but it has good characterizations, and is a competent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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