Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turbulent State of Yugoslavia, too, where the Russian Church has been supreme, Pius XI has shown tactical skill in obtaining full opportunities for Roman Catholics...
...lowan. Fifteen rounds were required for the operation. The 15 sealed forever Johnson's claims to the heavyweight championship; but they showed him to be one of the most unflinching fighters that ever wore a glove; he will always be somebody's sparring partner. Renault showed considerable skill but no vestige (in either hand) of the crushing cannon ball which alone can dent the Dempsey crown...
...receive enough space to commend to your readers a new adventure in the Bostonian theatre, which deserves their interest, which, in measure, depends upon their support? A little company of amateurs often drawing close to professional skill and pains, has taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner...
...skill of Benes in extracting millions from a country whence Andrew Mellon cannot coax...
...skill with which the author has revealed to us the ties that bind father, mother, and son that the chief beauty of the play lies. Roderick contradicts and corrects his parents with all the impudence and contempt for their views so characteristic-or supposedly so-of young men and women of the present generation. They, in return, treat him with amused tolerance. But behind it all one feels a wealth of affection that is beautiful as it is strong...