Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classical and archaic beauty. The composer is above all things a scholar, who, working his way into new harmonic textures, gives himself, at the same time, to an ardent study of the music of antiquity. He is a great authority on the Greek modes, and uses them with vast skill and charm...
...Professor Winter has won this place for his subject through his own judgment, good taste, and skill, and has done good service not only to the students who have profited by his instruction, but to all people who believe that democracy will in the future as in the past owe much to citizens capable of accurate, rational, and moving public speech...
...that was Claude Kitchin. But he was more as well. In 1901 he came to Congress, where his father had been before him, where one of his brothers (who later became Governor of North Carolina) then was. In 15 years, by his mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more?four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years he had clung to his seat in Congress and continued to hold...
...final match in preparation for the Yale contest on May 23, the Crimson golf team tested skill with Technology. The Engineers had been successful in all their matches to date and they received their first set-back on the Belmont course, capturing but two of the six matches, losing by the score of 4 to 2. Again Hodder played number one on the University team, with Williams two, Mapes three, and Peirson four. The low scorer of the match, however, was Mapes, who led the field with a 77. Peirson was next with a card of 79 while the best...
...successful organization as the Cleveland Play-house of Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, is outside his ken. And yet this admirable group of amateurs and semi-professionals has recently concluded a repertory-season including such plays as Candida, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hindle Wakes, Hamlet, presented with skill and intelligence and receiving the unforced support of its audience entirely upon the merits of its productions. The newly organized Theatre Guild of Philadelphia has already scored a distinct success with two Clare Kummer plays, featuring Lola Fisher as a " visiting star." The Bainbridge Players of Minneapolis, also employing...