Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the best endeavors of a small group of tough, skillful, highly-paid young men, the city of Boston has never been persuaded to take professional football very seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer...
This is by no means the first case on record on such petty larcency. Indeed, the group of policemen that appear as if by magic following the final whistle of the game, is much more interested in spotting gentlemen they have seen the week before either in the police line...
Dr. Koussevitzky's Symphony Hall program for Friday afternoon and Saturday evening will be devoted entirely to Richard Strauss and Prokefloff. To the Thursday selections will be added the German composer's grandiose "Death and Transfiguration," which makes skillful use of cerie woodwind passages and muted syncopation in the strings...
With this explanation and with the help of $10,000 contributed by late Merchant Edward Albert Filene as his last gesture toward reforming the world, Professor Clyde Raymond Miller of Columbia University's Teachers College, one of the most skillful propagandists of his time this week began to help...
Leading parts in Song on Your Bugles are assigned to a poor boy who has the makings of a great artist and the Yorkshire factories which work for his defeat. Few novelists are ever able to write convincingly about either genius or working-class life. Eric Knight's credible...