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Word: skill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City Opera's production reflected the music in a swirling fantasy of galaxies, bursting stars and mythic clouds. If the production dragged, it is partly because Boito's talent for invoking the superhuman exceeded his skill at projecting the merely mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Sermons and Satan | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...King is not drawn with an especially clear or unbiased eye; wifely loyalty often robs him of the humanity of having faults. Dispassionate reportage is not her real purpose. Rather, she has undertaken to bear witness to his life, and she has done so with great warmth and skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bearing Witness | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

More than Bigotry. The vast majority of unionized Negroes belong to industrial unions, notably the auto workers, steel workers and garment workers, in which they mainly hold jobs of low pay and skill. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union has managed to negotiate big pay raises for cutters and pressers, who are mostly white, while settling for minuscule increases for many of its 150,000 nonwhite members. In construction, Negroes make up about 35% of the laborers' union. Black membership is also high in the so-called "mud trades"-bricklaying, plastering, hod carrying-that white workers increasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHAT UNIONS ARE-AND ARE NOT-DOING FOR BLACKS | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...soccer team played sloppily and won on what Coach Bruce Munro called "individual skill." "Nothing was very encouraging, and we still need a lot of work," he said...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Beats Tufts In Sloppy Season Opener | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Economics 208. Improving the Breed. M-S at 1:45. Professor James Morgan, Associate Professor Aloysius D. Matthews, and members of the staff. Comparative models for maximizing utility in a system with equine variables. (Tuition for this course will vary with the skill of the student: most will pay between $10 and $75 per meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond Shopping Around | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

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