Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor added: "The proposed increase of 10% is recommended in view of the high degree of skill required among the miners and the extra-hazardous nature of the occupation. Five hundred workers are killed and 20,000 are injured each year...
...roque is the scientific descendant of croquet. Croquet to a roque player is like a Jew's harp to a flute player. Roque champions have refined the game down to the point that the arches are only a sixteenth of an inch wider than the balls. Yet their skill has increased to a point beyond which they cannot narrow the arches...
...Arles in Provence, on the FÊte of the Assumption, was held the annual amateur bull fight, in which the swains of the sunny South of France display their skill and courage to their admiring sweethearts...
Moreover - and this must be to its credit as a text-book - the author suppresses his personal views throughout with rather uncanny skill. No interesting prejudices mar the smooth uniformity of a text as flowing and clear and lacking in depth and shadings as a single straight line of ink drawn across white paper...
...largest at the time or are the most conspicuous. If fame delight, you, if to be talked about, to have your name and portrait in the public press, the object is not difficult to attain for people who care about it, and will devote some effort and a little skill thereto. Verily they have their reward, and one that, like riches and other worldly prizes, is a gratification to those whose hearts are set upon it; but in the sight of God not to be compared with work, inconspicuous perhaps to men, that has been built into the permanent fabric...