Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
...Ilkeston, England, one William Knighton, miner, killed his mother with unwonted despatch and skill. He knew neither how nor why he came to kill her, he explained to the officers who arrested him, only that he found himself committing the murder. Because his explanation jibes with psychologists' theory of "automatism,"* British Home Secretary Sir Joynson-Hicks last week canceled the man's execution and ordered the Criminal Appellate Court to search for extenuating evidence...
Died. Dr. Charles H. Peck, 56, famed as "a surgeon of surpassing technical skill, disciplined daring and resource of the highest order"; at Newtown, Conn.; of pernicious anemia...
Continuing, Professor Chaffee said, "it is very doubtful if television will ever be of as general use as radio now is for several reasons. In the first place, to operate television correctly calls for more technical skill, than most people possess. Then too, the apparatus used in sending pictures over wire, is very bulky and expensive...
...sport at Harvard was given trial at Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night with striking success. It remains now only to grace the most manly form of athletic endeavor with the dignity and title of minor sport. As a form of clean, hard competition bringing into play the highest degree of skill training and condition, boxing has a distinct place among the organized athletics of the University...