Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bligh soon proved his mettle. Rigidly keeping to his share of the starvation rations, he did much more than his share of the work, again & again saved them from foundering by skillful seamanship. When they landed at the island of Tofoa to replenish their water and food, the natives soon...
"Ace" Bailey underwent two delicate trepanning operations. "Eddie" Shore, one of the least malicious of hockey players, sat miserably in his room at home, waiting to hear whether Bailey would live or die. Both he and Horner were suspended by the National Hockey League pending investigation of the case. League...
But if it is not entirely possible for this reviewer to revive for the n'th time an appreciative artifical sentimentality or a chortling complacency, he must grant the editors of "The American Procession" due credit for skillful application of the diluted stimulus. The photographs, arranged in rough chronological order...
The political horizon is becoming cloudy for the Roosevelt administration and every day sees additional momentum from the sound money side. The President is a skillful analyst of public opinion. He may be expected unquestionably to anticipate the effect of this opposition and bring about a stabilization policy before the...
The United States government has never made entangling alliances but it has often in past history made skillful use of diplomacy to help keep the scales of peace even.