Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smarting under a defeat at the not particularly skillful hands of Colgate, the Syracuse eleven went west and knocked Nebraska down, 7-0. Vindication of Eastern football was the chief result of the game-since Nebraska had defeated Notre Dame, conqueror of Princeton, Georgia Tech, Army.
1915]. On the one hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds...
Those who have sat under him in the lecture room, or have ever heard him speak, know, however, that such universality does not imply, with him, abstraction or scholarly aloofness. One of his chief charms is his ability to turn the ancients to present-day use, to make a Carlyle...
Four hundred miles of the most dangerous rapids in the United States-through the Grand and Marble Canyons of the Colorado-will be traversed between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 by a party of map makers and geologists sent out by the U. S. Geological Survey, under the direction of...
The famous flights of Macready and Kelly indicated that the body of the airplane, its structure and flying controls are sound, its heart?the power plant?is weak and constantly giving trouble. Navy Department statistics indicate that the Liberty motor must be overhauled after approximately 72 hours of flight at...