Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where is the man who his the power and skill...
...mediocre man is successful in a game of skill only so long as he can forget drama and concentrate on the physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...
...voted the most popular lad in his class at a Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...
...brain of Goliath, was doubtless a thin, supple little man like William M. Johnston, onetime (1915, '19) national champion. Johnston's accuracy, in his heyday, was doubtless superior to that of the Israelite champion, but they both made the same appeal to a gallery-the appeal of skill, of courage, hazardously sustained by slight flesh. In 1921, 1922 and 1923, Johnston won the Seabright Lawn Tennis Bowl. Last week he got off a train from Chicago and within four hours began to play against Dr. George King of Manhattan. Dr. King is no Goliath -in fact...
...water, which registered 52°, though it had been free of ice only a fortnight (TIME, July 20), was found suitable for hasty plunging, much to the astonishment of gaping Eskimos who, though they gain their living by cruising about in precarious kyaks (canoes), have no skill at natation...