Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have you acquired adequate skill in communication with others...
...Osler's "two greatest contributions to medicine, the most important being the first medical clinic [Johns Hopkins'] worthy of the name in any English- speaking country, and the other the publication in 1892 of his text-book [Practice of Medicine] presenting with rare literary skill and unexampled success the principles and practice of medicine adequately and completely for the first time in English after the great revolutionary changes brought about by modern bacteriology...
Results of luck and skill combined, holes-in-one are commoner than perfect bridge hands. They are almost inevitable on the bowl-shaped holes of a course designed and owned by Comedian Joe Cook. Though the majority of golfers have never made a hole-in-one, Tom Washington, professional at the Monomonock Golf Club at Caldwell, N. J. has made 23. One G. Barnard, at the Prestwick St. Cuthbert's Course at Ayr, Scotland, made five holes-in-one between August 1929 and June 1930. Most holes-in-one are made by indifferent golfers assisted greatly by good fortune...
...inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, George L. Adams, a tanner. She owns several automobiles, yet is frequently seen walking the nine miles between Tannersville and Stroudsburg, or hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...
...Plan, a decree was issued last week putting into effect the Stalin suggestions and the similar recommendations of U. S. Mining En gineer Charles E. Stuart. Half the mines in the region must be mechanized by the end of the year. Workers are to be paid according to their skill with bonuses for good work. Direction of the mines is to be taken from workers' committees and given to individually responsible managers. To better miners' living conditions food lines must be abolished immediately, delivery of fuel and water must be speeded up. Construction of standard dwellings...