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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse's bones are not extraordinarily brittle, but a horse's weight and its momentum often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Professional jai-alai players, whose stock in trade are skill, strength and stamina, usually learn the game at the age of 6, retire at 35 with a life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merry Festival | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Carefree's authors make game of psychoanalysis, are frankly incredulous at the thought of Ginger Rogers' having a subconscious. Psychiatrists will deprecate this skepticism but will join the rest of the cinema audience in applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Long before William Tell displayed his skill with bow & arrow, Saxon wood carvers engaged in a sport called Vogelschiessen (shooting at wooden birds perched on poles). Last week, at Saxony Rest near Milwaukee, 400 of their U. S. descendants gathered for their annual jamboree and Vogelschiessen tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pedigreed Marksmen | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...short, the Brookings thesis holds that industrial management has not progressed as fast or as far in its price policies as it has in its technological skill. Cynics claim that this was because Big Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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