Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these annual shows come 70,000 people, cowboys and Indians from the surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...
...collection now illustrates 160 families of flowering plants, 540 genera, and 803 species, and there are more than 3200 analytical magnified details. The range of the exhibition is sufficiently extensive to give a clear idea of the relations of these important families and species to each other. The inimitable skill which has copied in glass every minute detail of structure of the plants has been wholly devoted to the University. All of the specimens which have been made since 1895 are the artistic handiwork of Mr. Blaschka, who has carried on all of his study and his modeling single-handed...
Washburne and Luce were the outstanding players on the Tabor quintet and more than once broke up the Crimson advances, but their skill was unable to check the points the heavier team was rolling up. King was the heaviest scorer for the yearlings, playing a steady, accurate game throughout the contest...
...championship for the third successive year when he defeated R. E. Smith '22 in the final round of the tournament by the score of 16-14, 15-11, 15-9. both men played up to their usual form, but the one-sided score was due to Bradlee's superior skill and experience. Except in the first game, he was never extended, his clever placements often putting the ball out of Smith's reach, and his steady, hard-hitting playing giving him an unquestioned advantage over his opponent...
...fall over Rosenfield, it being the only actual five-point victory that the Crimson grapplers scored, B. Y. M. C. U., too, was able to down but one of their opponents, when Myerson, Union captain and amateur middle-weight champion of New England, downed Abernathy with the greatest skill that was seen on the mat last night...