Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel desk, cream walls, tan curtains, grey rug, a cosmic-ray counter clicking away in a corner; or in the laboratories just outside where he has $50,000 worth of equipment for his own researches. He does much of his own experimental work, and his assistants admire his manual skill. He is reputed the best scientific glassblower in the Midwest...
...idol of Boston hockey fandom closed by stating that practically all games are 80 per cent, skill and 20 per cent, luck but declared "that 20 per cent, is mighty important." He added that, with a little more coaching on form and balance, Harvard possessed plenty of skill, and he wished them all the luck, to hold a permanent place in the sun in college hockey...
First five to show its skill was Purdue. Breaking fast and shooting with sure accuracy, it piled up a lead of nine points in two minutes as snippy Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert smiled on the bench, confident that his scouting in Manhattan the week before had uncovered N. Y. U.'s weaknesses. His smile was premature. Gradually gaining momentum, N. Y. U. bunched up on their opponents, slowly whittled the gap between them. At halftime, they were six points behind. Then they opened up. Netting the ball from every angle on the floor, they tied the count, pushed ahead...
Meantime Secretary of Commerce Hoover was handling his own press relations with surprising skill. A picked group of Washington correspondents, headed by Jay Hayden of the Detroit News and Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, went regularly to the Hoover office to be treated to encyclopedic and immensely helpful disquisitions on current national and international problems. Their mentor's name did not appear in the resulting dispatches, but the grateful newsmen saw to it that the Secretary of Commerce's light was not hidden under a bushel...
...profitless society," James Weschler has, with his admirably written study of the "Revolt on The Campus" made an important contribution to our understanding of the present maelstrom of confused tendencies of political thought and action as they whirl about the ivyed walls. Documented with care and thoroughness, organized with skill and clarity the work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes the going smooth and pleasant. However, the worth of the book does not depend on its literary merits. As an historical analysis of the condition of the American campus since...