Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who show a deficiency in their reading skill will be placed in one of five sections, four for Freshmen and Sophomores and one for upperclassmen and graduates, meeting twice a week. If the results are as satisfactory as last year's, more than half the students will show an improvement in academic standing, according to Salmon...
Attempts probably will be made during the week to develop a bucking back to assist Goldthwaite, who to date has held the position by himself, but no conspicuous stand-out is in line. Both Camp and Durwood are possibilities, but neither shows the bucking skill demonstrated by the lighter ex-Milton player...
...just compensation is provided for, so in this case these little animals should be compensated." Mr. Pallotti's reward for the beavers: they should be removed by the Commission on Forests and Wild Life to other quarters, "where they would be able to perform and exercise their natural skill and ability...
...sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when any Texan could tell him that what characteristically burns at night in Texas is gas, not oil. Through the whole book, despite its fluency and literary skill, runs a vitiating imprecision. Prokosch's words on America seem to apply as well or better to his own writing...
...would be futile. All one can do is sit in awe and reverence before someone who is making stage history with every part she takes. The rest of the cast, fine actors all of them, are forced to play second fiddle, not because of their lack, but her tremendous skill...