Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close to my heart the current prediction is. There is only one game today, as far as I am concerned. All my skill, shrewdness, and experience goes into this estimate--to say nothing of my reputed occult powers...
...Harvard and Yale Gun Clubs will match their skill on the range at West Haven, Conecticut, this morning in the annual shoot. The method of scoring will be that of adding the five high scores of each team...
...Flying Wedge" of 1892, the harbinger of a long line of momentum-mass plays ultimately to be legislated illegal. Following this for a number of years, the coaching brains of the country were concentrated in conceiving momentum and mass plays in which bulk and power were to accomplish what skill and artistry were to do in years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches. In 1894 all home football activities were transferred from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. This decade also gave to Harvard the world's greatest punter...
Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
...Significance. Audacious as it is masterly, the conception of a young hero-heroine living richly century after century is a feat of imaginative intelligence. In unskilled hands the bold conception might well fall short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of sex-transformation and passage of time are deftly, almost blandly, subordinated to the phenomenon of one and the same temperament reacting to the characteristics of disparate ages. Orlando is influenced by each new mode, but vivid memories give him (her) a dispassionate perspective. The sweep of generations offers every opportunity...