Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, thin, gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses to exhibit his trophies on the walls of the Holabird & Root office at 333 North Michigan Avenue, a skyscraper they designed. Last week he was practicing his fishing skill at swank Coleman Lake Club in northern Wisconsin...
...steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...
Thomas Hunt Morgan: A renowned zoologist whose experimental skill and penetrating insight have laid bare the mechanism of heredity...
...pleasant optimism and charming personality give the picture a realistic touch. The story concerns the everyday life of farmers, their hopes, fears, and monotonous routine. The intricate situations brought about by having members of one family living in close proximity to one another are portrayed adequately and with some skill. Although the film is not starting nevertheless the atmosphere is more or less unusual and the story not too blackened. The characters give it the realistic touch so necessary for a picture with so simple a plot...
...final was the fact that only two U. S. players in the last 30 years-Sweetser in 1926, Jones in 1930-have won the British Amateur. What the 12,000 saw was something much rarer, one of those mystifying rounds which, built of luck, confidence and skill in exactly the right proportions, can make the game of golf appear to be a form of magic. Before the match Little said to a reporter: 'T feel like I might shoot some pretty good golf today." The match ended, for all practical purposes, on the first green where Wallace three-putted...