Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two days the American press has been haling the remarkable achievement o the German dirigible, Graft Zeppelin. Enthusiastic praise of the triumph of Captain Eckener and his associates has been almost universal. The Transcript, however, has managed to find something more than great skill and great courage in the venture of the German airmen: "As a matter of fact, the experience with the ship is more valuable from a military point of view than it is from a commercial. May it not be that this aspect of the matter had a place in the minds of her builders...
...Cormac's skill in "blarneying" or "putting-off" the English lent to his stone its potent reputation...
...think of duty until after they have remembered all the other essentials for life's picnic. Margaret Lawrence has played roles in which she was far more charming than she is now as Mrs. Anne Whiteman; but, having had the courage to be unattractive, she also has the skill to make herself a nagging monster. The most noteworthy events in the career of Margaret Lawrence have been her returns to the stage; one, in 1918, after several years of leisure; the other last year after a period of diverting the Antipodes...
...pony who most notably helped America beat the Argentine was Hitchcock's Tobiano. A litle piebald horse, striped in white on the haunches and short in the neck, as quick on the ball as a kitten, Tobiano arrived at his skill on the pampas of the Argentine, working with cowherds. Here Lewis Lacey chose the pony for his present master; the American captain played Tobiano for two periods in every game of the 1927 series against England...
...through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...