Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gems were first made as talismans, then as cures, then for seals, and at length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...
Although plans must remain essentially tentative, President Conant foresees a bright future, "if a group of learned men, experts in many fields, can be measured by their collective skill...
Reynolds shows Lady Cecil Rice, the work painted in 1762, at a time when he was near the peak of his skill. It was only a month before that he had turned out his master portrait, "his perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...
Ever-efficient section men quickly arrived, with true medical skill bathed the student's eyes, tenderly washed his face, and solicitously told him to lie down. Ten minutes later, he had recovered his faculties. Weakly turning to his faithful lab buddy who hovered nearby, as a haunted look came over his smarting face, he muttered, "Bill, do you think I can still get a good yield...
...their best 60 years ago to imitate Leonardo da Vinci. Little Obata was apprenticed at seven to a traditional master, spent two years learning to draw a circle and two straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time to his garden in Berkeley as to his teaching at the University of California...