Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guide declares that last year's games between Harvard and Yale and Pennsylvania "probably stand out as the best exhibitions of intercollegiate soccer of the season. It is unfortunate that Harvard and Pennsylvania could not have met, for the result would have settled many arguments as to the relative skill and playing ability of the two teams...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
Taking advantage of one last chance to test their skill against par before putting their clubs away for the winter, a large group of enthusiastic golfers will compete for the College Golf Championship next week over the Belmont Springs Country Club course. The championship proved very successful last year when it was originated, and it is believed enough entries will be received to allow 32 men to qualify for the match play rounds...
...Cornish decided to try nursing yet another dog up the steep ascent from death. In his Berkeley, Calif, laboratory last fortnight the sallow young experimenter, with all the care and skill that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than...
Professor Kohler has frequently been in America and his skill and charm as a lecture in English as in German are well known. In choosing the relation of psychology to other sciences as the topic of the William James Lectures he will be presenting to Harvard audiences his views about Gestalt psychology as opposed to the older conventional psychology...