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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work was the issue on which the game was decided. Throughout the two twenty-minute halves, the former Crimson players were unable to penetrate far into the five-man cordon thrown about the Harvard basket. In the second half, Gordon recaptured some of his last year's long distance skill, but the visitors offense was never dangerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BEATS GRADUATE QUINTET | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

This book is the Epilog to the Biography of which each of his novels, he insists, is a chapter. The Prolog, it will be recalled, was Beyond Life. Mr. Cabell's adroit pen and urbane intelligence have lost none of their skill in the years intervening between the two volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...More unexpectedly, Dr. A. Conan Doyle chooses in his Memories and Adventures* to retell the events of an active life in brisk, episodic wise, shedding less light on the adventures of his soul than on his skill with the harpoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

President Eliot, after mentioning Dr. Brackett's service as characterized "by perfect disinterestedness, skill in teaching and a strong influence for good on all his colleagues and all his students", and after noting his contribution to the standing of his profession and to the idea that preventive dentistry is an essential part of preventive medicine, ends his letter thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CHAIR COMMEMORATES VETERAN TEACHER'S WORK | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

...system is to be the constructive force it is capable of being, the tutor must begin early in a student's sophomore year applying his skill as a specialist to that man's special needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE TUTORS! | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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