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Word: skilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word to describe just what Miss Enters does for a living, call her a mime. She is not a dancer for she has never made a pirouette in her life. Nor is she an actress for she never speaks a line on the stage. Yet with enormous skill and considerable sly humor she postures and grimaces through pantomime sketches of her own devising in elaborate costumes that she not only designs but sews herself. Eight years of it have given her a comfortable income, scrapbooks full of superlatives in three languages and last spring a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mime Enters | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...four scenes, with slight alterations, and represented the battle-ments of Thebes with bare stone stops leading to the walk below the parapet. This gave the whole production a classical and severe aspect, matching well the tone of the play. In general the whole production was done with the skill of professionals...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/15/1934 | See Source »

...general views concise and well-grounded. From Imhotep who started the ball arolling down to the modern hospital laboratory there was a long and tedious journey to be traveled by those who devote themselves to the aid of their suffering, brothers and Dr. Haggard has described this trip with skill and surety...

Author: By S. M. R., | Title: "THE DOCTOR IN HISTORY" by Dr. Howard W. Haggard; Yale University Press, New Haven; $3.75. | 12/14/1934 | See Source »

...ahed in front of her malicious black-&-white portraits. Like all good caricaturists, her bite is worse than her bark. This collection of 39 caricatures of prominent U. S. figures shows Artist Bacon at her best, her victims at their worst. A literate craftswoman (she versifies with skill), Artist Bacon supplements her sketches with verbal notes, sometimes as acidly to the point as the finished drawing. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artist's Victims | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Ernest A. Gray '37, sophomore center, was all over the floor again, and in the intervals when he was on his feet managed to slip in five points. On the defense his height and simian arms were potent stumbling-blocks for the Engineers, and his skill under the back-board prevented many enemy tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WIN FROM ENGINEERS, 45-12 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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