Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum's president, canny John Stogdell ("Stog") Stokes, had staged his act with great skill. With thousands of Philadelphians who had never been near his imposing yellow limestone building sweeping through the doors, now vas his moment to launch a drive he had long been planning: a campaign to raise $15,500,000 for his institution in the next ten years...
...masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German, necessitating brief English footnotes...
...native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown at him by the natives, entrances his assailants with a demonstration of his superior skill...
These new examinations, designed to test the general skill and intellectual promise of all students, will be given by the College Entrance Examination Board in 150 centers scattered throughout the United States on April 24. Applicants for all Harvard first-year awards will be required to take these exams, including all Harvard National Fellowship applicants. Individual Harvard Club awards, however, will be given out separately by the different Clubs throughout the country, although the Clubs may require their candidates to take the exams...
...coin game can be equipped with a device for disgorging coins, can be regulated by the house as to the percentage paid to players. Some state laws make a distinction between games of "skill" which reward high scores and the old out-and-out slot machine of the lemon & cherry variety. Still manufactured by five companies, including Mills, these can be legally operated only in Florida, Nevada, Maine and South Dakota...