Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rallies were long throughout the match, since both contestants preferred to rely on their skill at placing the ball rather than on quick kills. Ingalls won many points on drop shots, while Hinkle's best stroke was across the court with the rebound along the side lines...
During the Great War Colonel Eustace served as guide to the British Expeditionary Force which marched on German East Africa. It was largely by dint of his own skill in piloting the army through the jungle that the British were able to attack and capture the German colony from the rear...
...greater experience in the game, since he was a member of the University team during the 1920-1921 season and was runner-up against D. S. Ingalls 3L. in last year's fall tournament. In using his head and in executing clever drop-shots he has already demonstrated his skill. In the previous rounds of the tournament he has had no real test, since he has not as yet lost a game...
With Russian skill in diffuse natural detail, the scene is built up quickly and quietly, aided by the illusion of striking scenery. The clowns, the ballet, the lion-tamer, the wardrobe-mistress, go their way at home and without introduction; the manager carries on his routine of squabbles, and the actors come and go from rehearsals. Little by little, the threads of plot are woven together, the more important characters brought into relief and allowed to disclose their hearts in conversational ease. Their lives grow through the four acts of the play. The lion-tamer plays her wiles...
...third quarter the Princeton team seemed to change entirely. The speed, precision and skill of the Tigers in open field work first became a genuine menace. They had tried line plays and various shift formations without success and opened up their play in desperation. Princeton's strength in substitutes also became apparent. The terrific battering of the Chicago backs encountered an ever stiffening resistance. And after the Tiger had tied the score, a last-minute Chicago advance met disaster on the one-yard line when three desperate plunges were stopped dead...