Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult role of Mio Burgess Meredith plays with great skill and strength; Margo portrays Miriamne with gentle and compelling simplicity. Myron McCormick makes Trock a vivid incarnation of humanity reduced to the ruthless. Lee Baker as the broken judge and Austole Winogradoff as the some what Old Testament Esdras Pere contribute excellent characterizations...
Aside from these general remarks, Dr. de Silva's most interesting observations were concerned with the system of tests of driving skill which he has invented and developed himself, and which has received a large amount of current publicity...
...another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern Japanese naval history gave Togo Heihachiro a hero's part. Not by polishing up the handle of the big front door but by hard work, taciturn zeal and plenty of fighting skill did Togo become Admiral of the Son of Heaven's navy. When he first entered the Japanese Navy there was none, of any account. Togo was born just five years before Commodore Perry sailed into Yedo Bay and opened medieval Japan to western ways. At 16, Togo got his first...
...test of skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which the maximum speed of 88 m.p.h. can almost be reached before the brakes must be applied...
...course of these activities, Cinemactress Riefenstahl delighted Berlin gossips by spending six unchaperoned weeks in a Mont Blanc cabin with eight male members of her cast whom she astonished by her skill with skis. In 1934 she met Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He perceived in her a personification of those qualities of health, energy, ambition, good-looks, youth and love of sport which are the German equivalent of female glamour, promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress...