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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Star puckmen of former days will again don ice togs and test their stick-wielding skill this evening when alumni sextets from the University and from Dartmouth will clash on the Arena ice at 8 o'clock. The contest tonight, the proceeds from which will go to the Olympic skating fund will be played by practically the same men who met on the ice in an alumni game between Harvard and Dartmouth two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI SEXTETS RENEW RIVALRY IN ARENA TONIGHT | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

Domestic Affairs. ."The web of our affairs is extremely delicate, extremely intricate. Producing, transporting, marketing, financing, all require a higher skill, a more intelligent organization, than under a less developed, less prosperous people. . The entire life of the nation, all its economic activities, have become so interrelated that maladjustment in any one of them is sufficient to cause serious disarrangement in all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Lowden's 1928 boom has been a muffled one, as was his 1920 boom. Now as then his friends have been working with quiet skill assembling delegates while he holds back in dignified semi-detachment. In 1920, Mr. Lowden was a Business Man; now he is the Farmer's Friend, for reasons which it is hoped will also persuade Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...home of the huge, agreed that Max Reinhardt, Austrian, was the master of spectacle when he wove the wonder of The Miracle in 1924. Disapproving this restrictive distinction, he recently closed his Berlin and Vienna theatres, and bundled actors, scenery, costumes, to Manhattan to show his skill at smaller things. His first production was far from small, but it was delicate and true. Perhaps he started on a spacious scale in order to ease great expectations gradually down to subtler things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Cast into the form of an effective and pleasantly unpretentious revue, the novelty and chief attractiveness of the production lies in the cleverness of the negro cast which goes through its paces with an air that lends more individuality to the production than the skill of single performers. The musical background of the performance is the best part of it, and the songs and dances are executed with an ease and natural en- thusiasm of which only negroes are capable. This atmosphere in so sirongly prevalent that an unusual degree of continnity is preserved through the succession of unrelated scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

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