Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of skill is tainted with revulsion...
...minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...
...trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
Speaking his piece on the third and last day, Herr Hitler (whose surprising honored guest was George Astachov, Russian Chargeé d'Affaires) was a little more critical. He lamented that no artists had recorded any of the great events in National Socialist Germany with skill, talent and force comparable with paintings of other epochs...
...over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...