Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English 22 is one of the few courses in English composition given in the college. It is strictly a technical or "workshop" course, it being the belief of Mr. Hersey, who conducts the course, that skill in writing is obtained only by writing. That is why the student listens to no cut-and-dried lectures on the art of writing or is burdened with no definite number of pages of a textbook to read. He attends two very informal lectures a week, at which Mr. Hersey discusses some "genre", the short story, poetry, one act plays, the essay...
...belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests, learned from them a skill and precision in disputation which has since stood him in good stead. Later he was graduated from Loyola University. In the two decades he has practiced law in Chicago he has become known as one of the city's best appeal lawyers. He has attracted outside attention through his treatises...
...group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes and every 429 days; more or less violent ones every 11, 19, 22 and 33 years. To predict the approximate time & place of recurrence requires no great mathematical skill, especially if the seismologist has up-to-the-minute reports of the earthy quaverings going on all the time. To forecast the exact day and region as Cabinet-Maker Bendandi did last week, does, however, require a bold imagination...
Demanded Dr. Hoffman: "The American public is entitled to an explanation of the extraordinary difference in the appendicitis death rates. ... If there is a lack of surgical skill ... the matter imperatively demands consideration. For it goes without saying that most of the deaths follow operations, since it is a safe assumption that three-fourths of the appendicitis cases find their way into hospitals for more skillful treatment...
...Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. Naval Reserve Corps, who had been guest pilot of the DO-X since she left Lake Constance, called attention to the need for a special type of personnel on large flying boats. "None but an experienced seaman can command," said he. "The question of piloting skill is no more important with large planes than with small, but the need for commanders with stamina and executive experience in a degree comparable to the present masters of ocean liners is of paramount importance. . . ." Commander of the DO-X on her arrival last week was 43-year-old Captain...