Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conductor Frederick Stock of the Chicago Symphony last year inaugurated a contest which last month brought attention to Joseph Rosenstein, 19-year-old violinist. Because of the skill with which he played three concertos (one of them by Conductor Stock), young Rosenstein, short, sallow son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor, was unanimously judged most worthy of a solo engagement with the Chicago orchestra. Newshawks went after his "story," found that he had been running errands for the Chicago Daily News, forthwith played him up as a messenger boy. That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like...
...Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious, but it is his own and not Sir Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality...
Like Daniel Vierge, the painter who regained with his left hand the skill which he had lost with an accident to the other, Dr. Newell learned to pitch a baseball underhand after an injury prevented him from throwing in the usual way. The writer met Dr. Newell last winter just after he had returned from a 43-year ministry in Japan and Korea as a Christian teacher and worker for international peace-quite truly a grand...
...acres of land, 120 buildings valued at $2,000,000, an endowment of nearly $8,000,000. There is no white man among its 270 teachers and 3,600 students enrolled in high school, college and summer school courses. Because Dr. Washington wished to "put brains and skill into the common occupations of life," Tuskegee has remained an industrial school. It now teaches 42 trades as well as agriculture, home economics, and the academic and religious courses...
They took a seemly oath: "... I pledge myself . . . to consider ever primary to my own, the welfare of patients dependent upon my professional knowledge and skill; ever to respect the interests and reputations of my colleagues; as occasion requires, to supplement my own judgment with the wisdom and counsel of competent medical specialists; to render my assistance willingly to my colleagues; to extend freely my professional aid to the unfortunate, the poor and the needy; to advance steadily in knowledge by the reading of authoritative medical literature, by attendance at important gatherings of medical men, by postgraduate instruction from...