Word: skill
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present time than the attempts of men to overcome the laws of nature and to gain a mastery of the air. In succession, the gas balloon, the dirigible balloon and now the aeroplane have been experimented with at the cost of great sums of money and infinite skill, and the strides made in the past few years have been marvelous. The imaginations of fifty years ago are being approached by several of the most skillful inventors, and the results achieved so far have encouraged wide speculation as to what are the possibilities after all of aerial navigation and what will...
...place of honor in the Monthly is justly given to Mr. Rogers's "The Jester," a story or little drama in verse of a jester who would be more than a fool. Mr. Rogers is steadily gaining skill in expression; many of his lines have a swing which one remembers, such as this: "A ruined chateau, a terrace, a garden, a summer breeze...
...survey of the North Italian Painters extends from Altichiero to Correggio, with a postscript on the Electics and the Teneloists. He analyzes with equal patience and skill the works of scores of lesser men. He seems to have overlooked nothing. And he brings all, down to the most modest specimen, into his system. Of chief interest to the American reader, who has not the pictures before him to refer to, are Mr. Berenson's generalizations--the pages in which he sets forth his main ideas, or sums up some really important master, like Montegna or Corrreggio. His remarks...
Despite the plastic and fluvid condition of the earth's surface and the aquacious essence prevalent in the air yesterday the CRIMSON and the Lampoon valiantly matched their skill at the national game. The scene was one of delicate picturesqueness,--the contestants decked out in gala attire, and the vast concourse of onlookers displaying ostentatiously their brilliant outing costumes. The umpire was at times whimsical and at the third inning called the game on account of dampness. But nothing daunted the two teams and they played on amid cataract and slough. At the end of the game the special delegates...
...performance last evening went off smoothly, the acting as a whole was excellent, and the spoken German was remarkable for precision. K. Delbrueck 1G., of Berlin, played the difficult double role of Uncle and Newphew with skill and versatility. H. von Kaltenborn '09, as Oberst on Dorsigny, successfully adapted his acting and appearance to the demands of his part. Of the female parts, that of Frau von Dorsigny by C. O. Mueller '11, received the best interpretation. E. W. Friend '08, who played the part of Sophie, acquitted himself creditably, considering that he assumed the role when rehearsals were well...