Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a record of one second and one third place for the season, the Varsity cross countrymen will try their luck and skill for the third time this afternoon against a power-packed Dartmouth squad which last week shattered the hopes of Tufts...
Cleo seemed to have lost none of his old time skill in the weeks of his absence. He was snatching Leo Flynn's accurate passes from every conceivable angle in the passing drill, and running hard in the signal session...
...thinking of what he had missed. Now he was on his way to one of the General Education courses, something labelled Humanities 1a. He shuddered when he thought of those other years when he had wandered around in the catalogue, sometimes looking for something big, sometimes for a skill to be learned. But usually the literature or philosophy courses were too narrow or taught in monotones, and the Gov and Ec was too specialized, or somehow irrelevant to his own thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots...
...Brief Encounter. Excellent British-made tearjerker, expanded with realism and skill from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept...
...which were written secretly by Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly "crystallize" it into his own extravagant views...