Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unforensic, that we are capable of that collective adventuring along paths somewhat dubiously intellectual but undoubtedly attractive which lies at the heart of the Cambridge or of the Oxford Union. And it is hardly to be said that we lack that intellectual immaturity which is a prerequsite for debating skill...
Major Wogan stated that he plans to build up two teams of almost equal skill, training enough god substitutes to avoid the situation of last year, when one man's inability to play put the University out of the running for the intercollegiate title...
Well pleased at the maneuvres, President von Hindenburg said: "I have seen today that the German army's traditional standard of spirit and skill has been preserved...
...only fostered the introduction of tennis into Japan but is an inveterate long distance horseback rider, and a swimmer of remarkable strength. During a recent swimming exhibition off the famed Isshiki Beach, Prince Hirohito donned a bathing suit, seized a rifle, and entering the water, proved his skill at the peculiar Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince Regent Hirohito played a game...
...careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride is his, every fine conceit of skill and insolence. For a while his thundering ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more too, so that he seemed to surpass the champion, and the crowd trembled. But the champion had been before in evil straits; he had hammerblows waiting...