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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But when this climax to the three-day aerial spasm finally arrived, vengeful Colonel Turner was sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bendix & Thompson | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Since women are barred from fighting bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Calf Love | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

¶ Inside one hazel nut lie 3,000 silver spoons, all beaten by the skillful hand of Ah King, Canton silversmith.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Littlest Lot | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

When President Roosevelt picked his five SECommissioners, he found that the law did not provide for his designating one as chairman. Therefore he showed his personal preference by naming Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy for the longest term. The Commissioners took the hint, elected Mr. Kennedy chairman. But they must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reform & Realism | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Not until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 150 Russian Years | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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