Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is much one might say in anticipation of Mr. James work but such predictions are unnecessary. Emanating from a man of indubitable literary skill the book is bound to be a worthy tribute to the memory of a great man. The CRIMSON joins with the admirers of Mr. Eliot and of Mr. James in looking forward to this biography which will have besides the blessing of one man's thorough knowledge of another the additional tribute of fine workmanship...
Victories are always glorious, whether won by chance or skill. -ARIOSTO
...talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse...
...hawker Amschel Moses, one Maier Amschel Rothschild, barely escaped becoming a rabbi, entered instead the Oppenheimer Bank of Hanover, laboriously worked his way from clerkship to partnerhood, won the notice of Prince Wilhelm I of Hesse by his skill at chess, became the Prince's banker, begot ten children, swore his five sons upon his deathbed to carry on his business with absolute loyalty to each other and to the House of Rothschild...