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Word: skill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duncan Sisters' brief appearance is the high spot in this week's rather mediocre performance at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. They please with several sparkling songs and a few clever imitations. As of previous years the well known pair runs away with the audience. Their skill is manifested not only through their voices but also by performances on the piano and guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

This process is usually of a more or less technical nature and requires engineering skill, or at least, an engineering attitude. In the steel business, for example, the various functions from mining, extracting, and smelting, down to the final processes which prepare steel products, technical skill is necessary. Engineering training is essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...course, one vital requirement of men who would succeed in production work is the ability to handle men as well as to handle the processes. Leadership ability, when properly combined with technical skill, is, in my opinion, the most essential attribute of the successful shop superintendent or plant manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Schumann-Heink. That the heyday has endured even unto her sixty-eighth year was proved last week when she sang the rôle again at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Up she came out of the earth in Rheingold, sang her warning to the gods with an untarnished skill and dignity that made her few minutes on stage the outstanding moment of the afternoon. Next day she issued a statement that "after this year it would be time for an old lady to retire." Already she has given a season of Golden Jubilee concerts, two seasons of "farewells." Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Erda | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Among the books which Mr. Grabhorn gave are "Francis Drake" by J. W. Robertson. "The Golden Touch" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, "Hymns to Aphrodite," and "The Book of Job." All of these books are executed with tasteful artistry and skill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTMENT OF TYPOGRAPHY RECOGNIZED BY RECENT GIFT | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

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