Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible" and since M. Weber had no skill in the arts of self-defense. It is further mentioned by the intimates of a critic-poet that duels take place at dawn, a time when M. Rostand is usually indisposed...
...Freshman fencing team defeated the High School of Commerce in a series of matches, by a 6 to 3 score yesterday afternoon. The six victories scored by the Freshmen were due to the skill of H. B. Wesselman '31, who scored three points. S. S. Morrill '31, who won two of his matches, and W. B. Speare '31, who gained one point...
Team A will journey to Providence to meet the racquetmen from the Hope Club. The team will be composed of six men, instead of the usual five. At the University squash courts the Weston Golf Club players will contest the skill of the team B players...
...Polo, unfortunately, is an expensive game," asserted Mr. Milburn, "but for large colleges it is as capable of paying its way as football. As a sporting spectacle it contains all the elements of speed, skill, and physical contact that are appreciated by an American audience...
...reception was characterized by good feeling and easy familiarity. There was no disturbance to mar the festivities, and the welcome to the Free State President was genuine and hearty. The fact that the reception was an unqualified success is attested by the fact that, according to general agreement, more skill hats were in evidence than on any similar occasion on record, whether in honor of royalty, movie stars or prize fighters...