Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need our financing and technical skill...
...itself was revised slightly according to suggestions made by the viewing committee at the trial performance. The success of Professor Baker's management at Yale will assure a capable company for the play. It has been called a difficult drama for amateur actors and the presentation will tax the skill of the Yale Thespians...
...Brothers Mayo, surgeons, of Rochester, Minn., called him the "most learned surgeon in the world." Dr. Matas would probably regard his skill more effective than his learning. He told the Boston men: "Surgery is a fine name, and we can well be proud of it, for it is surgery that for centuries and centuries in the world's history has been recognized as the only art which has given to the human hand the supreme privilege of penetrating, exploring and working in the interior of the body of man. And in this, the surgeon's art transcends...
...These papers by the Curator of Prints in the Metropolitan Museum are a happy combination of scholarship, insight, and informal literary skill. As a means of augmenting the happiness of those who visit museums, these papers are to be recommended."--New Republic...
...Emerson's Journals" gives in one volume a selection from the original ten, which, chosen by a student and lover of Emerson, presents the Concord philosopher's strength and weakness, his human and his prophetic quality, as no other book has done. Mr. Perry has managed with great skill to show many sides of his many-sided subject. There appears not merely the Emerson of sculptors and builders of memorials," there is also the flesh-and-blood Emerson, flying out angrily in the face of what he hates, mourning the death of his son, or grimly reticent after minor disaster...