Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they were sure of his skill in mountain fastnesses. For five years they sought to capture him, bombing him from airplanes, attempting to storm his retreats. The rebel chieftain who eluded five thousand Marines, who rejoiced when American intervention was withdrawn, now lies dead at the hands of assassins, killed not as a soldier...
...mediaevalism, towards sanctification by tradition at the expense of the student. There is absolutely no question that the burden of publicity is an unnecessary trial to the cultural neophyte. To pass such an oral examination with success would require not only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...
...schools of the modern world, might find, for the second time, that Thomism alone can balance them, and form an unshackled instrument for the exploration of the universe. Mr. Maritain has said many times the things which Mr. Chesterton says in this book; but Mr. Chesterton's great verbal skill, and his cheerful confession of propaganda, are good reasons for saying them again...
...undergraduates of Harvard who desire to try their skill as skiers in actual competition will have a chance in the University Championship Downhill Race which will be held over the Katzensteig trail behind Glen House at Mount Washington at noon on Sunday, February 25. There will be two classes, the first of which will be open to all members of the Ski Team. The B class will be open to all contestants who are not on the ski squad...
...women only are courses in the Y. W. C. A. building. There they may learn how to make quilts, hooked rugs and lamp shades from Miss Clarice Smith, a sanatorium nurse, in a course in Home Handicraft ("Beautify the home-nest"). Mrs. Andrew Wood, housewife, shares her culinary skill in New Wrinkles in Cooking. Mrs. H. S. Patton, wife of a Michigan State College professor, teaches the school's second most popular course, Personality Plus. In it 158 women are learning how to meet strangers, use cosmetics, improve their conversational resources...