Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party was a party of technicians, and therefore the great U. S. du Pont chemical interests were appropriately represented by jovial, alert Irénée du Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper him in adjusting with nice precision scales which are sensitive to minute infinitesimals of a miligram. Naturally Technician Irénée du Pont is nonchalant...
...there is the fact that his father and mother were married there and a record showing the birth of his elder brother, David, at Rehoboth, Mass. . . . Thorp died without issue and outlived his wife. . . . He had left no evidence of having been distinguished by any quality excepting great mechanical skill and vision." Bound to this sadly thin genealogy was a picture. The New York Journal of Commerce reproduced that picture and under it printed...
Sympathy for their patriotism and admiration for their debating skill will, therefore, be freely and rightly extended to the islanders' delegation, but before rendering a final decision on the question it is well to remember that it is not merely one of freedom versus oppression...
...matter might never have come to public notice and the Stephens-Hoover exchange might not have been published but for two colleagues of Senator Stephens whose faith and skill in oratory are great...
...competition will be an altitude contest, which is preferred to a speed race since it is safer and is won by the skill of the pilot rather than by the power of the engine. Each club enters three pilots, who are listed to compete in separate tests...