Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour flight the beautiful silver dirigible ZR-1 flew over three states and gave Newark, New Brunswick, Camden, Philadelphia and New York an opportunity to see this marvel of American engineering skill. The Navy's tests so far have been entirely successful; all flights are made with the greatest caution and care. But there is no lack of ambitious work to come. Collection of data for the purposes of commercial airship navigation, flights to the North Pole, trips around the world, the surveying of hitherto inaccessible regions are in store for the airship skipper and his lucky crew...
Died. Mrs. Nancy Green, 89. " Aunt Jemima," whose name decorates boxes of the pancake flour put up by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., in Chicago, in an automobile accident. She first publicly demonstrated her skill with a pancake turner at the Chicago World's Fair...
...Sullivan was equipped with the most powerful right hand that ever dealt a knockout; he was short, heavy and slow. Corbett was known as the " dancing master. He cut Sullivan to pieces at long range and never once did the great right hand jar the opposing jaw. Skill won the world's championship and has retained it ever since. Now Firpo climbs into the ring to win it back again for bone and muscle. He climbs in perfectly conditioned despite his unique training methods. He brings with him a strange fatalistic belief in his success...
...most important, he brings a deep respect for his opponent which Sullivan never held for Corbett. Dempsey faces him with startling speed, uncanny skill and a jab in either hand that bites like a hatchet. He is probably not the fighter of four years ago that launched Willard into a pugilistic eternity from which he recently endeavored to return. His timing and his eye have dulled a trifle...
...class with his illustrious predecessors in the middleweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil (his international reputation in 1884-1891 persisted so strongly that the present heavyweight champion adopted his name), Tommy Ryan, Kid McCoy, Stanley Ketchel have held the title. So great was their skill that the heavyweight championship alone overshadowed the middleweight in national interest. Since Ketchels murder 13 years ago the middleweight class has been distinguished only by its consistent mediocrity...