Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hartman. Getting out the bone in itself was not an exceptional feat, though such operations on animals are rare and difficult, and it is high time that the public should know that veterinary practice of the best kind nowadays frequently reaches quite as high a standard of skill and knowledge as that employed on human beings...
...brush by a failing hand. Vierge had learned to paint over again with his left hand. Mr. Lawrence determined to do likewise. This was no easy task for a man past youth to set himself. Yet it was accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper's. Now that a full score of years has passed, he is able to exhibit water colors painted with his left hand better than illustrations painted with his right...
Among the problems which, though not entirely peculiar to the Engineering School, have yet assumed greater proportions there than in the College is that of inculcating a certain skill in the use of English in those students who have not acquired such an ability before entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition...
...Faculty admits, however, is but a temporary measure. At best it can serve only to alleviate and not to solve the difficulty. It has been suggested that special teachers in English take charge of each Engineering student, and continue to supervise his work until he has developed a reasonable skill in the handling of English...
...boots and a fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...