Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual University boxing tournament, offering Harvard pugilists their only chance to exhibit their skill at the sport will begin tonight at 8 O'clock at the Hemenway ring. At present 35 men have signed up for the preliminaries; tonight's winners will meet a week from today to determine the titles...
About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
...however, to detract at all from the great credit that is due to the Lowell Observatory for making the find. These men set up their great telescope, the 13-inch Triplet, the funds for which were donated by President Lowell, expressly to find the predicted planet and with great skill they managed to get its image on one of their photographic plates. Too much honor cannot be accorded such fine astronomical calculations...
...leave nothing to be desired. Although a masquerade Ball which is introduced toward the end of the performance seems a needless display of fire-works, as a whole the elaborate scenes are admirably controlled throughout by the able hand of the director, Ludwig Berger. Incidentally, he also shows considerable skill in avoiding the artificial introduction of supposedly spontaneous quartets, a practice which mars so many efforts of the talking screen at the present time...
Casual and everyday use of movies as a normal adjunct of education has not yet arrived, but it is well on the way. Yesterday in Fine Arts 5b, the History of Renaissance Scuipture, the art of the cinema and the technical skill of the University Film Foundation were called into service when a picture of the intricate technical processes of bronze and plaster casting were illustrated via moving pictures on a screen, far better than they could have been described by a lecturer...