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Word: skillfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German music. It does not extend to the technical skill with which you produce things like Mercedes-Benz cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking in the Mirror | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Finney's passing is undoubtedly his outstanding skill. Faced with a third down in his own territory, he would almost consistently take to the air, and his passes were almost consistently complete...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Bruins Edge Varsity, 29-22 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...combine with a material called DNP (for dinitropheny). When he broke the fragments into smaller fragments, the amino acids that had been in the end positions were stained yellow with DNP. There are 51 amino acid units in insulin, a comparatively simple protein. But Sanger's patience and skill eventually found the place of each in the long chain. Then he reassembled the fragments and learned how the chain is folded over and locked together. At last he had the first full picture of one of the giant molecules that are the stuff of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...stage piece. The Man in the Dog Suit is not without virtues. Hume Cronyn brings to the title role the sort of skill that can dramatize a problem and humanize a scene, and Jessica Tandy is engaging as the wife. Some of their scenes together flash with intensity as well as theater; Carmen Mathews has a funny interlude as a drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

TOUGHER PILOT CHECK by the CAA will mean more surprise inspections of airlines' blind-flying skill. Latest check: Northeast Airlines pilots, involved in three fatal crashes in bad weather in 21 months. Of first 95 Northeast pilots tested for instrument flying, five failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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