Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grievances which gradually became more prominent, until the war was fought out simply to secure control of the railroads. The Jewish or Nordic government had the advantage in financial strength and man-power, but the Negroes were a compact body known as the Solid South and had superior technical skill in working the railroad system. Through this control of communications the Southern party was victorious, and the Negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative, and in many parts of the country special coaches were reserved for them...
...September. ¶Mr. Coolidge consented, last week, to the establishment of a "President's Cup" for the winner of the annual swimming contest of the Washington Canoe Club on the Potomac. (The Club will pay the cup maker.) He described the sport as one "which requires not only skill and stamina, but which in itself constitutes a most useful accomplishment." ¶Summar Biakemore, head of the junior department of the Rye, N. Y., Country Day School, classmate of Calvin Coolidge at Amherst, died, last week, at Port Chester, N. Y. ¶On one of the first hot mornings...
Herrmann is the Crimson hurler who will match his skill with that of Captain Trumbower this afternoon. He has started only one game this year, having won that handily from Catholic University last week, allowing the visitors only five hits. He is sure to meet competition of a much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year...
...text, however, shall be a sentence in the earlier address: "Give to History, give to Political Economy, that ample verge the times demand, but with no detriment to those liberal Arts which have formed open-minded men and good citizens in the past, nor have lost the skill to form them." From the point of view of our time this admonition of not quite half a century ago is somewhat startling. We need not nowadays concede to history or economics any place that they do not occupy; the need is rather of bringing home to future lawyers and captains...
...function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems impossible to do one without the other...