Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football would be improved vastly if the captain were to have the entire responsibility for the management of his team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted while...
Paises Indian Skill...
...been for the skill of the Paya Indians in navigating the tremendous rapids, it is doubtful whether I could have reached the interior," contained Mr. Spinden. "Although they are an extremely primitive people, dating back to pre-Columbian times, the Payas are boat-men of great daring and endurance, who drive forward in the face of the most tumultuous streams. I was alone with these natives during the course of my trip and found them a very interesting people, more humanly attractive than the comparatively civilized Maya Indians of Yucatan...
...strenuous itinerary lasting over a period of six weeks has been arranged for the Cambridge team in this country. In the week immediately preceding the Symphony Hall debate, they will pit their debating skill against teams from Bates, Dartmouth and Smith...
Before twelve thousand calm and quiet spectators, a few white-clad individuals gave an exhibition of the science of tennis in New York on Saturday night. The tennis was good tennis, the audience saw skill, and conflict, and the desire to win. And incidentally they saw well-paid professionals...