Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill and farsightedness won him the respect of statesmen far beyond the frontiers of Germany. Simple and unaffected in speech, he exuded an earnestness and sincerity that marked him as capable and efficient and endeared him to all. Coming to Washington two years ago as the successor of Dr. Wiedfeldt, who refused...
...Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This was no way to win a test of physical skill and mental poise, they reasoned. They saw Mrs. Horn complete her first round with the shocking score of 88. But Mrs. Orcutt had completed the round with an evermore shocking score of 91, and was 2 down. When Miss Orcutt sliced her losing margin to a single hole...
Falling on the ball is one of the most important features of a player's skill. He must be able to dive at a loose ball from any posture and land with the obloid caged by arms, stomach, legs. Thus are fumbles retrieved in football games; thus are fumbles, unexpected flukes of fortune, re covered. Many football games have been won by fumbles promptly pounced upon. Since a football is not round, but bounces drunkenly, the proper pounce requires flashing speed, intuitive judgment, and tire less practice...
...Army War College opened last week at Washington; 89 officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps reported to perfect their skill through this post-graduate work. Said Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff...
CONFLICTS?Stefan Zweig?Viking Press ($2.50). Stefan Zweig, talented globe-trotter and literary dilettante, was shaken by the War out of gay indolence at Vienna into mapping out two series of ambitious literary projects which he has since pursued with a vigor and skill that has brought him high rank, before his 50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes...