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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...last few years. Except for the one hymn of Phillips Brooks which is a part of every Christmas, the songs that are sung are those of men of two and three and more centuries ago, when Christmas meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields, is proof that the spirit of Christmas has never been more truly given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOD REST YE-- | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

Naturally, in the application of such treatment everything depends on the skill of the bacteriologist who examines the patient's blood and determines the nature of the injections. Therefore, British interest has focused sharply on Dr. L. E. H. Whiteby, the brilliant young bacteriologist who was called in by the elder royal physicians Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary (TIME, Dec. 3). Dr. Whiteby, with amazing speed, in 24 hours produced an autogenous vaccine from infected material taken from His Majesty. That vaccine was injected into the royal blood stream and directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blood Royal | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Odell, a member of former expeditions to Mt. Everest and at present Lecturer in Harvard University, will accompany the showing of the ascent of Grepon at the Union Sunday night, by an explanation of the technique and skill involved in rock climbing as the picture progresses. Grepon is considered the most difficult ascent in Chamonix and these pictures were taken especially for instruction in the art of mountain climbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODELL WILL ADDRESS UNION AUDIENCE ON ROCK CLIMBING | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

...College when the war broke out he went to Gallipoli as a member of a Newfound land regiment in the British Army Later in the war he fought with the American expeditionary force in France Mr. Gallishaw's wide and colorful back ground should combine with an acknowledged technical skill to make his lecture at 2 o'clock this afternoon attractive for many Vagabonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Students Vagabond | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

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