Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no Republic but Turkey, and Mustapha is its President,--a part which he acts with consummate skill. A recent issue of the Westminster Gazette carries tales of the potential impetuosity of this morose leader. Intimate stories of him recall the "private annals of Peter the Great." Their verisimilitude is easily credible in view of the likeness of the two chieftains in other respects; both occupied themselves in changing the facades of the social structure they ruled from Oriental to Occidental. Mustapha's literary proclivities lean toward the perusal of German military memoirs. Yet he knows that he reads...
...moving and impressive. Cameron Rogers has compiled an interesting and very well illustrated collection of drinking songs and poems under the title of "Full and By." A. P. Herbert's "Laughing Ann" has the gaiety of Milne's "When We Were Very Young," but it has more grace and skill if it lacks something of the jolly quotable rhythm. Miss Lowell's "What's O'Clock," published a few months after her death, contains some very charming poetry of her familiar variety. "Earth Moods? by Hervey Allen surveys the world from its creation in a large and hearty manner...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A satirical tale of the Theatre, heavily buttered with brilliant lines and deftly egged on by the skill of Gregory Kelly...
...commonly charged against the examination system. Illuminating, for example, is the application of this reasoning to the criticism, frequently heard, that a certain student works for grades rather than for knowledge. "To chide a tennis-player for training himself with a view to winning a match, instead of acquiring skill in the game would be absurd, because the two things are the same. If marks in examinations do not measure accurately comprehension of the subject as taught in the course and the power to handle it, the instructor is at fault, for his examination does not measure what it should...
...appeared from all the investigations that I have been able to make that the farmers as a whole are determined to maintain the independence of their business. They do not wish to have meddling on the part of the government. They are showing a very commendable skill in organizing themselves to transact their own business through cooperative marketing, which will this year turn over about $2,500,000,000, or nearly one-fifth of the total agricultural business. The Department of Agriculture should be strengthened in order to be able to respond when these marketing associations want help...