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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Held to be one of the most successful character portrayals in early African art, the princess portrait breaks away from the traditional stylization of features, revealing great artistic skill and knowledge of anatomy. A cap of coral beads, with long pendants on either side, tops the head. The eyes are delicately inlaid with iron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Museum Gets Priceless African Bronze Portrait of a Princess of Benin | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

...film was undoubtedly planned around Edward Arnold, and he with his blunt skill does make Moade a convincing fellow, toying with the farm girl come to the big cit-tee. Uninspired and uninspiring as it always is nowadays, this plot might work itself out through a few scenes of drama, some (in this case good) comedy, and so on, to the final reconciliation. Francis Larrimore would be given her chance to show herself in her debut, and all would be quite regular, and very, very plain. As a matter of fact, "John Meade's Woman" does end with the necessary...

Author: By W. N. C., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Harvard's Varsity Rugby team meets its second opponent of the 1937 season today, Long Island University, at 2.30 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Long Island is reported to have a strong team this year and Harvard will have to use all its skill to take this game. After the 5-3 defeat at the hands of Nassau last Saturday there has been some rearrangement of the Harvard first fifteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby 15 Meets Long Island In Season's 2d Game at 2:30 | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

...mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even the average lacerated wound of the face or the scalp, as a rule, indicates a slipshod operation or lack of surgical skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Office Surgery | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divers | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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