Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Barker, for the cures he effected among War wounded soldiers, received the honor of knighthood and obtained practical, if irregular, recognition of his skill while Dr. Axham, now a very old man, being deprived of his means of livelihood, has been in considerable financial straits...
...General Medical Council (privately) holds that the four famous surgeons who petitioned the Prime Minister to have Sir Herbert knighted, in recognition of his skill as a great manipulative surgeon, are guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' in which they were abetted by the King. . . . But it does not act on its views because the King and his advisors are not so helpless as Axham...
...opera whom he considered to be the most notable, Mr. Hopper protested that such a request was beyond his power. "Gilbert and Sullivan, I think, will never die. They are to the English musical stage what Shakespeare is to the drama. But there are many other composers of considerable skill. The think that distinguishes a mediocre man from the skillful composer is that the latter fits the music to the scene, while the former merely writes notes that have no particular continuity, though they may be very tuneful...
Artist Sims paints what he sees with glittering fluency. A. Lys Baldry once declared that "few present-day painters equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is because he, like his critic, is a Britisher, and this quality is an immemorial part of the British intellect-an intellect never so ponderous as when it is airy and never so supple as when it is hard with scorn...
...circled over the grandstand, and once more the crowd was swept with unacknowledged thrills at being about to witness an accident. Cant. Duncan was in one of the most desperate situations that can confront an aviator. He knew that a crash was inevitable unless he landed with absolutely flawless skill. He saw an ambulance scuttle out down below and wait by the side of the field. But it was not used...