Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowing this rich and growing market to be weaned away from them by enterprising Europeans, American merchants have further demonstrated their amazing indifference to the future. Years of neglect and misunderstanding have opened a chasm between the two American whose felicitous closing will require all the diplomatic skill at Mr. Hull's command...
...regarded favorably, if merely as a consolation to Mr. Harkness. Next there comes the consideration of the effect on the college. This should be beneficial if the debates do, as their advocates pretend, put the high bat on the bull session and conserve all the forensic skill hitherto wasted on the steps of Sever, in witching hour wrangles over the meaning of life, and to Jack the bartender at the Theatrical. Lastly, it is urged not without sound reason, many an unsuspected leader of men will first find winged words in the unintimidating atmosphere of a forum of his peers...
...playing skill of the leading golfers of today is not much superior to the quality of golf displayed by the outstanding players of the pre-war era when I won my first national title. The difference between these two periods, however, lies in the fact that in 1914 there were only about four or five topnotch golfers. Now, on the other hand, there are over a score of players of championship calibre and this number increases each year...
...There is no shot in golf that can be classed as the most difficult one. Each shot takes as much dexterity and skill to perform correctly as the one before it, or the one succeeding it. The average golfer is inclined to neglect his putting, being of the opinion that it is the long shots that are important. This, however, is a fallacy. Many a championship has been won or lost on the putting green; it is there that coolness and iron nerves are necessary...
Alone among Russian émigré writers, who have generally lost both prestige and potency after being cut off from their native country, Author Bunin has tuned his exile's harp with increasing skill, today stands head & shoulders above other White Russian writers. Unlike the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize is never awarded for any particular book; like his predecessors, Bunin is being honored for cumulative excellence. His best-known book is the volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe...