Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contribution, and only one, shows literary skill: Mr. T. S. Ross's "Tomlinson Junior, with apologies to all Kiplings" is a clever football parody in refreshingly good verse...
...most promising of American composers. He is also the first blind man to become a violin virtuoso, and is ranked by Eugene Ysaye among the foremost violinists of our time. Mr. Grasse is furthermore a pianist with a beautiful touch and a highly developed skill. Grasse's compositions and playing have received the warmest approval from audiences both in Germany and in this country. Let us therefore not be behindhand in furnishing a worthy and enthusiastic audience to greet this real genius at his first appearance among...
...game today witnesses the inauguration of a new policy in regard to the choice of opponents in football. Vanderbilt, as the undisputed champion of the South, comes to the Stadium this year for the first time to try her skill against Harvard. When Harvard and Yale went to England for a field meet with Oxford and Cambridge, nothing but praise was heard for the scheme. Yet within our own country there has come about a certain localization of athletic competition, due in large part to the great distances separating the different sections. As a matter of convenience and economical management...
Gardner's generalship in choosing plays to use at the critical moments was the best that he has ever displayed. The play which scored the touchdown, a cross tackle charge on a delayed pass, was well picked to mislead the Princeton team. But perhaps more encouraging than his skill was the ability shown by the men behind him, as well as by himself, in holding on to the ball. There was not a fumble, whereas Princeton once lost the ball on downs on her five yard line through a fumble...
...perhaps depends too much, for its impression, on the squalid and the revolting; and his narrative is inferior, on the whole, to his description. Mr. Rogers's account of "Griggs," the English butler, on the other hand, is effective as narrative. The method of suspense is employed with some skill, and a single point of view is well maintained...