Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With great skill and some luck Herr Bruning softened the Socialists' hate of himself by exciting their fear of the Fascists. He pointed out that the fall of his Cabinet would mean dissolution of the Reichstag. This, with the brownshirt star then so definitely in the ascendant, would mean Fascist gains and Socialist losses. Upon reflection, the Socialists decided to support hated Herr Bruning "temporarily." Month by month he has slowly consolidated that support. The budget was the test...
Featured by the proportionately large number of graduate students entered, the finals of the annual University boxing tournament will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock on the top floor of the New Indoor Athletic Building. About 15 men will have an opportunity to show their skill in the manly art before a crowd which is expected to be between...
...Because of his skill in research combined with a rare ability to plan problems for others...
...heading of this first chapter of the book is "Revelation," and it continues to be a self explanation of the fact that criticism is a matter of cultivation and discrimination among the more civilized aspects of life, all of which Mr. Nathan purports to do with some considerable skill...
...insignificant to find a place on their canvases. A suspicious wife, the visit of an amorous doctor, neighbors gossiping, a bit of landscape, friends playing cards, peasants drinking and quarreling, ships riding at anchor, a vase of flowers, all were depicted with great keenness of observation, sympathy, and consummate skill...