Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher in any institution of higher learning. Students attend a university for the purpose of preparing themselves either culturally or specifically for a career they intend to pursue afterwards. They want and need men who can lecture to them interestingly and impart their subject matter with skill and clarity. A certain amount of research is necessary in order to keep the subject living and progressive, and there should of course, be men to take care of this important task of imparting this material as it is gathered. if men are expected to do worthwhile research and at the same time...
...whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable. 'La bêtise n'est pas mon fort...
English 31 is highly recommended to those with any skill in writing. If genius is present it will soon be brought out; but even if the spark is missing, the year will not be wasted, for the marking is eminently fair, and the general knowledge of writing which is accumulated will be helpful in any field of future activity...
...third crew but he is going to have a strong battle to displace Bill Burton who has been filling that position while Rog has been recovering from an infected hand. Burton is certainly of Varsity calibre, and it will call for all of the younger Drury's skill to show better performance...
Death clutched the wings of six Army flyers last week, but his hand had lost its skill. When their plane became disabled at 6,000 ft., two Army flyers bound for Washington from Dayton scorned their parachutes, pushed their wobbling ship along 100 mi. in near-stalling position. With two brace wires broken and the right elevator surface dropping at a 20-degree angle, they made a precarious but successful landing at Boiling Field...