Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scar-bedecked men travelers see in Germany are not of the army, but university students and graduates. These, as members of rival fraternities, challenge each other to duels just as here a football team of one university plays against another. It is a test of nerve. Skill is of course also essential; the unskillful carries his mark for life. But he is proud of having gone through the ordeal, and ordeal...
...last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident of a 24-hour glide with a passenger aboard...
...connection of one of my own countrymen with the exploit, I desire to offer to Your Majesty my congratulations on the important participation in the Amundsen expedition to the North Pole by an Italian airship and the son of Italy who piloted it. To Commander Nobile's scientific skill is doubtless due, in large measure, the success of this hazardous and historic undertaking...
...heroine nervously tugs at her glove under cross-examination, the country, is told in a special edition. If the hero waves on the witness stand, pink-sheeted extras herald the indiscretion. With the skill of true playwrights, the reporters interlard the main action with willy bits of byplay between the lawyers...
...Lampoon, pitching with the fervor and skill of years' experience reached great heights, not to mention the home plate, with the pitch of excellence. But the legion of CRIMSON bats was as impenetrable as the Old Howard on Saturday night and victory perched not upon the Ibis's bough...