Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt had begun to demonstrate his skill as a campaigner as soon as he arrived in Syracuse that afternoon. Syracuse's most popular politician is Republican Mayor Rolland B. Marvin. Democratic Nominee Roosevelt tickled Syracuse's pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made...
...mailer how many letterman graduate, how few outstanding players there were on a Freshman team, or how many booters go on probation, Varsity Coach Jack Carr always seems to have one of New England's finest soccer teams, Even when they are outclassed in skill, the players have an extra fight that often pulls them through to victory...
...full success of the plan depends, of course, on the skill with which the examinations are compiled, on the continuity and correlation which can be attained in the courses themselves. It will also be affected by the wisdom which the various departments show in helping the Sophomore to choose his Major and plan his work for the coming two years...
...tennist, Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing...
...major indoor fight of the season, they met again. This time, after 15 rounds of sincere if not particularly interesting scuffling, the referee and judges decreed that Ambers' enthusiasm for his chores had outweighed Canzoneri's fatigued apathy by more than the difference between Canzoneri's skill and Ambers' puppylike clumsiness...