Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than impressionistic...
...health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard displayed a cat from which he, as a turn of surgical skill, had removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex...
...with dubiety. He advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs...
Other polo enthusiasts will have an opportunity to test their skill at Mr. Robert Shaw's estate at Newton Centre, which he has kindly allowed the University to use for this purpose. For the horses used there Mr. Ayer's stable will be used. These practices will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which...