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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The selection of a dark horse is, of course, determined by the availability of the candidate, by the skillful maneuvering on the part of his managers and by a favorable combination of circumstances that sweeps him forward at the right moment. One can not predict what good luck will effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/25/1932 | See Source »

The esophagoscope, like Dr. Jackson's famed bronchoscope, is essentially a narrow-bored tube. The bronchoscope goes down the windpipe into the lungs. The esophagoscope goes down the gullet. Dr. Jackson developed both after he got the initial idea from two German professors. They derived their method from sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pouched Throats | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

The American Nurses Association, for example, is striving to discourage girls from entering their vocation. Last week Dr. May Ayres Burgess of the A. N. A. complained: "Any nurse, to make a reasonable income in her field at the present time, must either be unusually competent, unusually lucky or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Revolt Against Costs | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

May victory not prove equally fatal to Hitler? He has as yet no such strong support as Mussolini won. He has been troubled with revolts in his ranks, notably that of Dr. Goebbels, who published his own political program and was cast into outer darkness. His bigoted platform, which calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GORDIAN KNOT | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

It has been said that courses are valuable, indeed necessary, because they enable the college to teach large numbers of students. Any other scheme means individual teaching, or tutoring, which is expensive and for which no college can easily obtain a sufficient number of skillful men. To this argument the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/25/1932 | See Source »

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