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Word: skilfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Scientists Zbarsky & Vorobev were reported to be writing a book revealing how they accomplished the preservation. It was rumored that they would make the disclosure at last month's International Physiological Congress in Moscow. Last week they said they would keep the secret a dozen or so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: God Under Glass | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Yet the claim of the book is a great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/5/1935 | See Source »

If Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art wanted to launch a peace campaign, it had ample material on hand in the foregoing excerpts from the etchings of Otto Dix which were put on public exhibition this week. Otto Dix is a skilful German draughtsman who served in the War, remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dix's War | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

For centuries the juridical systems of the civilized world have assumed that the natural handwriting of no two persons is the same. In most commercial transactions a signature is considered as good as a face or a fingerprint. Even the most skilful forgers find it next to impossible to perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twinwriting | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

All Persians are proud of their Leader and fervently hope to regain the ancient prosperity under the skilful guidance of their beloved King.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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