Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard and Yale debaters had met in the Winthrop House Common Room. Owing to the small attendance, the question, "Resolved: That the welfare of the country demands a vote of confidence in the Administration in the coming congressional elections," was decided solely on its merits rather than on the skill of the teams. The vote was two to one for the new deal...
...neither a "nice" nor an "enjoyable" play, but it is a starkly forceful drama, conceived with courage and perception, acted with magnificent skill, and produced with the best of modern technical ability...
...worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Loew's State: "What Every Woman Knows"--from J. M. Barrie's play. A human drama executed in the best artistic skill by Brian Aherne and the excellent Helen Hayes. Fine serous human drama and a noble work of the cluematic...
...cruel consequences not only for the persons directly concerned but also for the nation as a whole," he writes. "Moreover, it is hardly worth while to affirm that the members of such a proletariat--disappointed, unemployed, and equipped with a relatively high standard of mental training and skill--very often become the bearers of a radical revolutionary attitude...