Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style of the head may be characterized as marking the transition from Phidias to Praxiteles in its combination of simplicity and dignity with rather detailed modelling and striving for expression. The massed irregularity of the curling locks of hair has a notable variety, showing much skill in their rendition...
...Slavic Languages and Literature, Sociology, and Zoology. Candidates for the fellowships must be either graduates of colleges of recognized standing, graduates of professional schools requiring three years of study for a degree, or be twenty, four years of age and have spent five years in work requiring high technical skill...
...doubtful whether even 150 rubbers will prove anything as to comparative merits, since the result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...
...goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill the Last of the Bourbons...
...laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible hangover; Cooper listening while his nice little half-sister tells him a fairy story about a Princess who slept for 1,000 years...