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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russians to the Pole | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...finest drivers," he declared, "are truck drivers. Their judgment skill, and coordination are perfect. And the worst drivers, without a doubt are women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania Judge Says College Men Are Good Drivers but Terrify Others | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

Chief emphasis of the exhibit is on the skill of the European artisans shown in small objects of decorative and practical use. Represented are crafts of tapestry-weaving, goldsmithing, enameling, bronze-casting, carving in crystal and other precious stones, steel works, and book making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collection and Critiques | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

Briggs Cage, Soldiers Field, sees an assembly of 900 Cambridge Boy Scouts tonight when Governor Hurley commissions one of them as official representative to the International Jamboree in Holland this summer. Exhibitions of Scoutcraft skill will feature the meeting, including the erection of a 75 foot suspension bridge in ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 900 Scouts Meet in Briggs Cage | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

Josephine Hutchinson of the Eva LeGallienne repertory company and "Alice in Wonderland" scores again as the daughter of a fanatical mountaineer. Trained as a nurse, she attempts to aid her ignorant and hostile neighbors by her medical skill, but Pa, played by Robert Barrat, is the horse-whipping type, and, resenting the manner in which his daughter "keeps sticking her nose into other people's business", administers several lashings so convincingly that the audience greets his death with applause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

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